'Amazon Music Officially Sucks Now': Prime Members Are Frustrated By the Streaming Service's OverhaulAmazon Music recently added 98 million songs to its catalog to meet customer demand — but now subscribers are furious about additional changes.

ByAmanda Breen

AlthoughAmazon Musicrecently added 98 million songs to its catalog in a bid to keep and drawPrimesubscribers, many customers aren't satisfied.

That's because the tech giant has also made other major changes to its music streaming service. Now,Primemembers can only listen to individual songs if they pay $9 per month for Amazon Music Unlimited,Insiderreported — and many people turned to Twitter to voice their frustration.

Related:Amazon Rolls Out New Perk for Prime Subscription Members

Previously, Prime members could search for and stream nearly two million songs and also download songs for offline listening. But that option is no longer available unless users upgrade toAmazonMusic's unlimited plan.

"The No. 1 thing we heard from members was, 'I want more music,'" Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime, toldThe Wall Street Journalearlier this week. "So we figured out in the service, with the publishers, how to make that possible."

Naturally, the switch-up has elicited some less-than-impressed reactions on Twitter.

Amazon Music had5500万用户as of 2020, the last time it released statistics about its subscriber numbers, though its competitors Apple Music andSpotifycontinue to outperform its platform. Apple Music has an estimated78 million usersas of June 2021, according to Statista, and Spotify has188 millionpremium subscribers as of the second quarter of 2022.

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Amanda Breen

Entrepreneur Staff

Features Writer

Amanda Breen is a features writer at Entrepreneur.com. She is a graduate of Barnard College and received an MFA in writing at Columbia University, where she was a news fellow for the School of the Arts.

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