Instead, the key reasons to upgrade are firstly to be able to play everything on-demand rather than on shuffle and second to get higher quality music streams (HD, Ultra HD and spatial audio in Amazon’s case). The news means that the differentiation between Amazon Music and Amazon Music Unlimited is no longer about catalogue size. Podcasts are also part of today’s announcement, with a catalogue of (also ad-free) shows now part of Amazon Music, along with some ‘Amazon Exclusive’ podcasts. The tier remains advertising-free, and part of a Prime membership. Amazon Music’s 100m tracks can only be played in shuffle mode, although listeners can specify an artist, album or playlist they want to shuffle.Īmazon is also making a selection of ‘All-Access’ playlists available for on-demand listening to Prime members. Its catalogue is swelling from 2m tracks to 100m, matching the total recently announced by Apple Music. Today, though, Amazon Music is getting a huge upgrade in the amount of music it has available. To this day – now described by the company as ‘Amazon Music’s benefit for Prime members’ – it is still Amazon’s entry-level streaming tier, with people able to upgrade to the Music Unlimited tier to get a full catalogue.
It had a limited catalogue of music though: 1m tracks at launch, which later expanded to 2m.
When it launched in 2014, Prime Music was Amazon’s first music streaming service, bundled into its Prime membership at no extra cost. Tags: Amazon Amazon Music Podcasts Top Stories
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