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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
Amazon’s music streaming unit has blossomed into a multifaceted audio platform, with podcasts and livestream performances joining the on-demand audio service’s menu. The late 2020 acquisition of podcast studio Wondery got affirmation this year in the form of six Ambie Awards, the podcasting world’s equivalent of the Oscars, from the Podcast Academy, among them the big prize of Podcast of the Year for “9/12.” The Weeknd, Drake and Tyler, the Creator are among acts who’ve played Amazon livestreams, which has shared music from such festivals as Something in the Water and Head in the Clouds. Boom launched Amp, a live-audio service that includes Formula 1 coverage and a Nicki Minaj radio show among its offerings, and “Amazon Music Live,” which debuted alongside the debut in October of “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video.
