Amazon wants to get music on your Echo more easily and take on Spotify with a free tier of its own.
The music streaming wars aren’t offer yet, with Amazon reportedly in talks with the big labels about offering an free, ad-supported service to take on Spotify – and it might be launching as early as next week.
That’s according to sources speaking to Billboard. Apparently the new service will offer a limited selection of songs but wouldn’t cost users anything – a bit like the free tier that Spotify offers.
The new service sounds a lot like Amazon Prime Music, the music selection you get as part of a Prime subscription – only in this case you’d have to listen to ads instead of signing up for Amazon Prime.
