Amazon is launching its Spotify rival, Amazon Music Unlimited, in the UK with a headline price of £9.99 a month and access to a library of “over 40 million” songs. The service is cheaper for those with an Amazon Prime subscription, the company’s all-you-can-eat free delivery package. That’s how Amazon is hoping to entice users to upgrade from its other free streaming service, Amazon Prime Music. The same tags can be applied on a narrower basis, letting users ask for “Oasis songs from before 1997” or “happy Radiohead songs”. Another set of controls is based on an enormous lyrics database that Amazon has integrated with its streaming service.

Source: The Guardian November 14, 2016 09:45 UTC