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Gracie Abrams to Stream Red Rocks Concert
Gracie Abrams has announced her Red Rocks concert will be available on Apple Music on October 29th.
Apple Music’s Most Played Songs
Apple Music has shared a playlist of the top 500 most played songs on the platform.
Apple Music Celebrates Ten Years
Apple Music celebrates their ten year anniversary with a new “Replay All Time” playlist showcasing your most played songs of all time. You can find mine (and a comparison to what Last.fm says) below. You can find yours in the Home tab on Apple Music.
Read More “Apple Music Celebrates Ten Years”Apple Music Unveils New Culver City Studio Space
Apple Music has unveiled a new studio near its Culver City headquarters, an expansive 15,000-square-foot space the streaming service hopes will serve as an all-in-one creative hub where musicians can come for radio interviews, write and record new music, conduct photo shoots and film video content.
Apple Music Studios opens this summer and will serve as the home for some of Apple Music Radio’s marquee programming including the Zane Lowe Show.
Apple Music/UMG Launch “Sound Therapy” Songs
Apple Music, under an exclusive deal with Universal Music Group, is rolling out a collection of instrumental versions of pop songs — crafted based on audio science — that it claims can help you better sleep, relax and focus.
Apple Music’s Sound Therapy collection takes well-known songs and blends in “special sound waves designed to enhance users’ daily routines, while retaining the artist’s original vision,” according to the companies. For example, a “dreamy version of Katy Perry’s ‘Double Rainbow’… could help listeners drift off to sleep.”
Mood Playlist Widgets From Apple Music
The new version of Apple Music lets you trigger “mood” playlists from control center:
Opening the Music app will continue being the main way most of us interact with Apple Music, but I love what Apple’s doing with iOS 18.4’s new Ambient Music controls. The ability to assign a mood playlist button to your iPhone’s Lock Screen, Action button, or Control Center removes friction from the music playback experience.
Apple Music Opening Catalog to DJs
Michael Burkhardt, writing at 9to5Mac:
In a statement today, Apple announced that it would be integrating the Apple Music catalog with a number of popular tools, allowing for DJs to create mixes with Apple’s robust catalog. Users will also be able to explore a new DJ with Apple Music page starting today.
With these changes, Apple Music subscribers will be able to mix their own sets using the Apple Music catalog. This integration will be available in some of the leading DJ software and hardware platforms, including AlphaTheta, Serato, Engine DJ, Denon DJ, Numark, RANE DJ, and Algoriddim’s djay Pro software.
Spotify Wrapped & Apple Music Replay Now Live
Spotify’s Wrapped is now live, as is Apple Music’s version called Replay. As a longtime Last.fm user and evangelist it’s always interesting to see how these stats compare to my extremely diligent scrobbling. Apple Music got my “most played song” completely wrong. But I do find these “top artist/albums” by month graphics pretty cool (but, still not correct when compared to what I scrobbled). I shared my stats below, and I’ll post the actual numbers after the year’s over in our end of the year feature.
Read More “Spotify Wrapped & Apple Music Replay Now Live”Shazam Crosses 100 Billion Songs
Shazam has now officially surpassed over 100 billion song recognitions since it launched.
QuickTune for MacOS
Mario Guzman has released a new Apple Music app that mimics the nostalgia feel of old Apple operating systems:
Control Apple Music with this simplified controller that has the look and feel of QuickTime 7 and Mac OS X “Tiger”.
Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums of All Time
Apple Music are releasing a list of the “100 Best Albums of All Time.”
Apple Music’s team of experts alongside a select group of artists, including Maren Morris, Pharrell Williams, J Balvin, Charli XCX, Mark Hoppus, Honey Dijon, and Nia Archives, as well as songwriters, producers, and industry professionals.
I wasn’t consulted.
Apple Music Debuts “Heavy Rotation” Playlist
Apple Music has started rolling out a “heavy rotation” playlist. From looking at mine, it looks like it’s basically just a bunch of things I’ve played a lot recently.
Read More “Apple Music Debuts “Heavy Rotation” Playlist”Apple Adds Monthly Replay
Apple has updated its Replay website with monthly totals for top artists, albums, songs, and milestones.
Read More “Apple Adds Monthly Replay”Apple Music to Incentivize Spatial Audio Mixes
Benjamin Mayo, writing at 9to5Mac:
Apple will pay up to 10% more per play in royalties for tracks where a spatial version is available. This is starting with January’s payouts. Crucially, Apple Music users do not necessarily have to listen in Spatial Audio for the artist to be rewarded with the bonus payout.