Amazon Prime Music, music streaming has arrived

News tagged Amazon is coming from U.S. platforms: the e-commerce giant has launched its new music streaming service.
Overseas, Amazon Prime Music has officially landed, and at the moment no potential release date for European terminals has been announced.
Amazon Prime Music is for now reserved only for users of the “Prime” service – so it’s paid – but contrary to what one might think, it wasn’t developed to run only and exclusively on Amazon devices.
The service is in fact currently available via PC and Mac, but the next step will be to bring it to Android smartphones and tablets, and iPhones and iPads, in addition to Amazon terminals: anyone will therefore be able to test Amazon Prime Music.
The news arrived after long negotiations between the company and the major record labels, but the complete absence of the Universal catalog cannot go unnoticed. Despite the lack of big names, the system still boasts over one million tracks available for unlimited listening.
Regarding how the music streaming works, there are no particular surprises compared to the main competitors.
Simply and intuitively, you can select artists, albums, and tracks, with the advantage of being able to listen to them offline, simply by downloading the tracks instead of listening to them by “fishing” them from the cloud.
Since it is a paid service, even if included in Amazon’s Prime program, advertising is completely banned, thus allowing for “clean” and original streaming, without pauses between tracks.

Globally, Prime subscribers will therefore pay $99.99 per year to access everything included in the Prime membership, as well as music, TV series, streaming movies, and a catalog of over half a million e-books for consultation and download.
The price appears high, and indeed it is when compared to the Italian Prime fee; however, Amazon offers more services for the United States, and therefore the price is justified.
It is not yet possible to know not only the arrival date of the music streaming service in Europe, but not even the possible cost; one also wonders if the possibility of opening free accounts with associated advertising will be provided, as the main competitors, Spotify above all, do.
We will return to this topic as soon as more official information is available from the Amazon staff.