Amazon takes on Spotify with Prime Music service June 12, 2014 Amazon launched a music service yesterday that came free with its £79-a-year Prime membership programme, but offers a smaller selection of songs than Spotify. The new feature, Prime Music, allows subscribers to stream or download over a million songs without added fees or ads. This is one of many steps Amazon has taken in recent [...]
Spotify passes 10m user mark May 21, 2014 ONLINE music streaming firm Spotify now has over 10m users, according to an announcement yesterday. The group rose from having 6m users previously, and has now paid over $1bn (£591.9m) in royalties to artists. The firm also said Eminem and Rihanna (pictured) are the most streamed male and female artists over the lifetime of the [...]