Amazon plans to expand its dominance of e-commerce and its inroads into TV and movie streaming available through its Amazon Prime Video service, according to Billboard. Amazon is reportedly mulling the launch of a free , ad - supported music streaming service , placing it in direct competition with iTunes , according to Billboard . Amazon is said to have offered to pay record labels for the streamed music , and it has existing relationships with those labels due to its CD sales and Amazon Music Unlimited service , meaning that rights to their songs will be fairly straightforward .
Amazon is reportedly mulling the launch of a free , ad - supported music streaming service , placing it in direct competition with iTunes , according to Billboard . Amazon is said to have offered to pay record labels for the streamed music , and it has existing relationships with those labels due to its CD sales and Amazon Music Unlimited service , meaning that rights to their songs will be fairly straightforward .