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Prime Music

Towen7

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Dear Customers,

A little more than 3 years ago we launched Prime Instant Video, adding unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows to the existing Prime benefit of Free Two-Day Shipping. It has turned out to be one of the most important things we've done for Amazon Prime members. Today, we are doing it again for music — introducing Prime Music, the newest benefit of Prime membership.

With Prime Music, you can listen ad-free to over a million songs and hundreds of expert-programmed Prime Playlists. Prime Music includes tens of thousands of albums from top artists like Daft Punk, P!nk, Bruno Mars, Blake Shelton, The Lumineers, Bruce Springsteen and Madonna. And we'll be adding more music all the time. Here's a list of popular artists in Prime Music.

In designing Prime Music, we wanted to remove the barriers between you and the music you love. We removed cost. You can listen to the entire Prime Music catalog for free — it's included in your Prime membership. We removed interruptions. Don't worry about having your music constantly disrupted by ads... you won't hear any. We removed listening restrictions. Choose exactly what song to listen to, repeat your favorite song over and over again, or download music to your phone or tablet to listen offline.

Finally, we removed one more barrier — deciding what to listen to. Just play any of the hundreds of Prime Playlists our music experts have created for you. Check out the Prime Playlists here.

Prime members in the US can start listening to Prime Music today at www.primemusic.com. Kindle Fire HD/HDX devices will get Prime Music in an automatic, over-the-air update. You can also download the latest Amazon Music app in the Android and iOS appstores.
 
Isn't this the music service everyone said we needed 12 years ago when nobody wanted to pay for music and justified stealing it online?

Is it too late?
 
It's clearly too late to stop rampant stealing of music. That ship has sailed. This service and all the others are how the industry can try to evolve their business models. But I dont see how it can ever go back to the way it was.
 
thank you for the update,

im not a primary er, amazon prime member, but my wife is. i hope that this still works for us secondary members.

*edited*

doesnt work for secondary members. i guess why its called prime music. :happy-smileygiantred:

still great news tho, definitely a big thumbs up to amazon!
 
"...or download music to your phone or tablet to listen offline."

I wonder how they got around this; radio could reimburse the artists with paid commercials (or at least, used to). Does $100/year actually pay for TV, movie, sports, and music royalties, plus free 2-day shipping (which, alone, makes Prime worth it to me)??? :shhh:
 
Botch said:
Does $100/year actually pay for TV, movie, sports, and music royalties, plus free 2-day shipping (which, alone, makes Prime worth it to me)??? :shhh:

I see another price hike in the near future (2-3 yrs). :angry-cussingblack:

I wonder if they will ever offer a tiered version of prime services? Maybe someone doesn't want the movie and music part, but does want the 2-day shipping. It'll be interesting to see how far they are willing to push the price.

Personally, I love the music service more than the video, though I do love Falling Skies since we run OTA and don't get TNT.
 
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