Amazon has brought music streaming to Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime is adding music to the mix. On Thursday, after much speculation, the online retailer launched a streaming service called Prime Music, at no additional cost for Prime members who pay $99 a year. Those members will automatically gain access to more than 1 million songs, including what Amazon says are tens of thousands of albums from top acts like Justin Timberlake, Pink, Bruno Mars, Blake Shelton, The Lumineers, Bruce Springsteen, and Madonna. Amazon Prime has come a long way for a subscription service that was initially all about two-day free shipping. Through the nine years of Amazon Prime’s existence, the company has added streaming movies and TV shows, and a Kindle lending library of more than 500,000 books.