AMAZON EXPAND MUSIC CATALOG & PODCAST AD-FREE FOR PRIME MEMBERS👍🏾

Prime’s additions come as other retail membership programs bundle entertainment

''Amazon Music will extend a full offering of music and podcasts without ads to members under the existing $139 annual Prime membership fee. ''

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -5.52%decrease; red down pointing triangleis making more ad-free music and podcasts available to Prime members, sweetening its offering as competitors increasingly bundle entertainment with other services.

Amazon Music will extend a full catalog of music and podcasts without ads to its members under the existing $139 annual Prime membership fee, the company said, seeking to draw more customers to its audio services. Starting Tuesday, Prime members, who have so far been able to listen to about 2 million songs for free, will now have access to 100 million songs—the same full catalog offered on paid streaming audio services.