From CNET: Amazon launched a streaming-music service called Prime Music, making the gamble that adding on-demand tunes to its $99-a-year Prime service will be more important in drawing new members than matching the exhaustive catalog offered by rivals Spotify and Apple's to-be-acquired Beats Music.
Prime Music goes live Thursday with more than one million tracks pulled from the catalogs of two of the top three record labels - Warner Music Group and Sony Music - as well as from large independent labels. Universal, the world's biggest recorded music company, is absent.
By comparison, Spotify, the leader in subscription streaming music with 10 million paying members, and Beats Music, which Apple agreed to buy last month for $3 billion, have catalogs with more than 20 million tracks.
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