{"id":487952,"date":"2019-07-12T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T17:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=858309"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T17:19:46","slug":"amazon-music-is-growing-three-times-as-fast-as-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/amazon-music-is-growing-three-times-as-fast-as-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Music Is Growing Three Times as Fast as Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Amazon<\/a> rolled out a standalone music-streaming service in 2016, the music business largely dismissed it as yet another Spotify<\/a> clone, entering far too late in the game. But the e-commerce company\u2019s efforts in music are quietly shaping up to be major drivers in the industry.<\/p>\n

Days after Amazon enlisted Taylor Swift, SZA and Dua Lipa<\/a> for a high-profile concert trumping its annual Prime Day sale, the Financial Times<\/em> is reporting<\/a> that the number of people subscribing to Amazon Music Unlimited \u2014 which complements Amazon\u2019s more limited Prime Music offering \u2014 has grown 70 percent in the last year. While Spotify dominates the market in pure subscriber count, its rate of growth in subscriptions lags behind at just 25 percent. Midia Research music analyst Mark Mulligan noted to the FT<\/em> that Amazon Music is the \u201cdark horse\u201d of streaming services and that \u201cpeople don\u2019t pay as much attention to it [as to Apple and Spotify], but it\u2019s been hugely effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reason for Amazon Music\u2019s furious growth? It doesn\u2019t go after the obvious demographic of young music fans, many of whom are already loyal to their Spotify and Apple Music logins. Instead, it\u2019s been targeting older consumers, especially those who fall in the space between the record-store generation and the streaming youngsters. According to Midia, only five percent of Spotify\u2019s customers are 55 or older, compared to 14 percent of Amazon Music customers.<\/p>\n

Amazon understands the value in catering to the middle-of-the-road consumers \u2014 the ones who stream music only casually, the people who care foremost about being able to use their smart speakers as radios \u2014 and has positioned its two music-streaming services as utilities rather than innovations. The cost of a subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited also falls from the normal $10 a month to $8 a month for Prime members and just $4 a month for people who only listen via Echo devices, making it easily the most convenient and affordable option. (Amazon Prime boasts over 100 million customers in the U.S. alone.)<\/p>\n

While competitors are scrambling to differentiate themselves with bold new features or deeper interactivity, Amazon executives have admitted outright<\/a> that Amazon Music, both in its Prime and Unlimited versions, is simply a \u201cmainstream music-streaming service for the mainstream music fan.\u201d It\u2019s no grand vision, but it works \u2014 and very well, at that.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Amazon rolled out a standalone music-streaming service in 2016, the music business largely dismissed it as yet another Spotify clone, entering far too late in the game. But the e-commerce company\u2019s efforts in music are quietly shaping up to be major drivers in the industry. Days after Amazon enlisted Taylor Swift, SZA and Dua […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 13:14:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}