Spotify Joins List of Music Services Available Through Amazon's Echo Speaker

Amazon said Spotify is now available on Echo and can be controlled by asking Alexa to play an artist, genre or playlist through the speaker. Echo also supports Spotify Connect, allowing users to transfer and control their listening experience from the Spotify app, Amazon said Wednesday. Spotify users can link their $10-per-month Spotify Premium account using the Alexa app, while new users can try the streaming music service for free for 30 days, Amazon said. Spotify could end up competing with Amazon’s own premium streaming music service, if a report published by the New York Post last week has legs. The Post called Amazon a potential “Spotify-killer” based on reports the company had held meetings in the past few weeks to discuss licensing tunes for an upcoming subscription music service that would “ape streaming music market leaders Spotify and Apple Music.” Amazon’s current Prime Music service comes free with an Amazon Prime Membership but is limited to roughly a million music tracks versus Spotify’s 30-million-plus library. Echo users can also play music from Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Prime Music and TuneIn. Amazon didn’t comment.