The arrival of Apple Music to the market, was a revolution in the streaming music market. Since its launch, several companies such as Rdio or Line Music have been seen forced to lower the blind, while other services such as Pandora, is seeing how the number of subscribers is dropping because they are moving to the Spotify and Apple Music platforms.
Today Spotify is the king of the market with more than 30 million paying subscribers, while Apple Music has 13 million subscribers. Both companies are launching aggressive campaigns to try to capture the interest of users interested in this new way of consuming music.
As reported by Reuters the giant of internet sales Amazon is preparing a streaming music service to compete with the current kings of the market Spotify and Apple Music through a monthly subscription service. Currently Amazon Prime users have access to a limited catalog of songs that would be part of this service. According to Reuters, Amazon will offer the same monthly price in subscription mode, $ 9,99 per month to try to compete in this market. This service would also be integrated into Amazon Echo that the company manufactures, which would allow the playback and control of music through voice commands.
The new music offer would also be a new attraction to sell the Amazon Echo, becoming a speaker for our home, which allows us to search through the Internet, place orders ... all through voice commands. Amazon hopes to integrate its streaming music service into Amazon Echo to try to increase the sales of its portable assistant by adding a series of very attractive novelties.
Reuters has not reported on the probable release date of this new streaming music service.
