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Amazon Music Growth Outpaces Spotify, Apple Music

Posted July 11, 2019 | Amazon Music | Amazon Music Unlimited | Amazon Prime | Apple Music | Music + Videos | Spotify | Windows


A new report says that Amazon is growing subscribers for its music service faster than market leaders Spotify and Apple. Spotify still dominates from a subscriber number perspective, of course. But Amazon could surpass Apple Music if the current growth rates hold.

According to a report in the Financial Times that is based on Midia Research data, the Amazon Music Unlimited subscriber base jumped by 70 percent in the past year, landing Amazon in the number three spot in the industry with about 32 million subscribers. By comparison, Spotify grew its subscriber base by 25 percent last year, to about 100 million subscribers. Apple Music has about 50 million subscribers.

(A previous report stated that Amazon Music was expected to reach 35 million subscribers by the end of 2019.)

“Amazon is the dark horse [in music],” Midia Research analyst Mark Mulligan told the publication. “People don’t pay as much attention to it [as to Apple and Spotify], but it’s been hugely effective.”

Midia credits Amazon’s success to its “ubiquity” with consumers and the Alexa/Echo smart speaker technologies, which have proven popular with its customers. Amazon Music Unlimited is also less expensive than its rivals—$10 vs. $15 per month—and that price falls even further, to $8, for those with an Amazon Prime membership. Amazon also offers a super-cheap subscription, at $4 per month, for those who want to listen only via a single Echo smart speaker.

As you might expect, Amazon’s user base is older than that of its rivals as well. Amazon’s is the oldest user base, followed by Apple and then Spotify.

“We’re not battling for the same customers as everyone else,” Amazon’s Steve Boom confirmed. “For the industry to reach its full potential, we can’t just look at 15- to 22-year-olds.”

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