Amazon enters the music streaming business

With a limited catalog, Amazon's streaming service will have cross-platform support.

Users of Amazon Prime, its premium service in the US through which, among other benefits, its users receive their orders for free, will have access to streaming music starting next summer.

Amazon has already reached agreements with major record labels to offer songs older than half a year.

In this way, and unlike services such as Spotify or Beats Music (recently acquired by Apple), Amazon preserves one of the pillars of its business, which is the physical distribution of new music.

With a limited catalog, Amazon's streaming service would have cross-platform support, just like its toughest competitors, Spotify and Pandora, do. It will also give the user the possibility of activating offline playlists to download a specific list of songs to listen to without an internet connection.