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Amazon Music Unlimited, the company’s streaming service, today announced its expansion into 28 additional countries, offering a catalog of more than 40 million songs and thousands of playlists to millions of more listeners. The company will also begin to ship its voice-controlled Amazon Echo to those countries, which is powered by Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service.“Music is such an incredible global connector, and with Amazon Music Unlimited we’ve been able to give listeners access to an extensive catalog with the...
Amazon Corporation
Steve
Boom
VP, Amazon Music
If you think you had a busy 2021, compare notes with Boom, who moved Amazon Music into the podcast game with the acquisition of Wondery, the vehicle for such popular shows as “Dirty John” and “Dr. Death,” then forged a partnership with lauded podcast “SmartLess,” hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, delivering new episodes a week ahead of other services. He also worked a partnership with Twitch that brought livestreaming into the Amazon Music app. He led the development of DJ Mode, which provides on-demand streams that have the feel of a hosted radio show, and took advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day splash with the launch of a three-day show that featured Billie Eilish, H.E.R. and Kid Cudi, all broadcast globally on Prime Video and the Amazon Music app.
