Please tell me if I'm an idiot or if this is close to the real reason.īecause, quite frankly, I can't understand why a company would risk keeping a product that everyone dislikes. Therefore, if Amazon Music isn't used as much as before, the costs of using it will decrease but Amazon keeps the same amount of revenue from the Prime membership and they can still advertise that Amazon Music is included with Prime.įor this reason, I believe that the "Shuffle" problem will be permanent, or they will be resolved once costs have been covered.Īmazon Music can just wash their hands by saying "but we gave you the music that only Unlimited people could access." Also keep in mind that the payment to artists could have increased and that there are song shorter than 5 minutes meaning that the song streaming costs might be higher.Īnd this only counts if you pay the additional $8.99 fee for Unlimited Otherwise, the Amazon Prime fee carries the cost of the $5.56 per month. Keep in mind, this profit calculation does not include forgone revenue from 'free trials', costs associated to the website/app maintenance, and it has not taken into account the people that listen to music for over 115 hours a month. This means that Amazon would pay an average of $5.557248 a month ($0.04824 x 115.2) to cover the costs of people listening - Leaving a profit of $3.43. According to 2022 statistics mentioned by 'headphonesadditct', the "average American listens to 115 hours and 12 minutes of music in a 30-day month". Assuming that a song lasts for an average of 5 minutes, that means that 12 songs will play in an hour ($0.04824).
This does not mean that people will cancel Amazon Prime though.Īccording to a 2020 'musicgateway' post, Amazon pays artists $0.00402 per stream.
This either means that people will go to another service for their music or that they will simply not use the Amazon music app. I think Amazon is trying to decrease costs.Īs of now, Amazon Music is not functional.
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