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Amazon launch Spotify streaming rival

Amazon has now entered the UK streaming market.

The retailer has launched Amazon Prime Music in the country as a rival to the likes of Spotify.

The service currently holds around one million tracks and features playlists from tastemakers.

Music fans can get access to the service by snapping up Amazon's Prime package - which also features movies, TV shows and books - for £79 ($123) a year.

Christopher North, Managing Director at Amazon UK, commented:

"UK customers loved it when we added Prime Instant Video and unlimited photo storage into Prime last year, on top of Unlimited One-Day Delivery on millions of items and access to over 800,000 Kindle titles to borrow.

"We said then that we were just getting started, and today we're introducing Prime Music - more than a million songs from best-selling artists, plus hundreds of Prime Playlists hand-built by our team of music experts - all at no additional cost."

Amazon Prime Music can be accessed through desktop PC and Macs, as well as iOS and Android devices via the Amazon Music app.

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