Amazon launches free streaming music service just for Prime members

Amazon rolled out its rumored streaming music service for Prime members. Prime Music, included with the $99/year Prime membership, promises over a million songs from about 90,000 albums and hundreds of pre-made playlists. There’s little new music, and so far one of the three major record labels -- Universal Music Group -- isn’t participating. Prime Music is ad-free and a perk Prime members didn’t have before. It’s not available as a standalone paid service. Amazon is also touting Prime Music’s advantages over non-Spotify competitors, like Pandora: “Choose exactly what you want to listen to, skip as many songs as you want, repeat your favorite song over and over again, or download music to your phone or tablet to listen offline.”