Just lost way more time than I care to admit to this…

Fun fact: Apple Music Replay updates every week, so feel free to wait until Jan to get your complete countdown

Also out now is Apple Music Replay for Artists, which includes lots of shareable stats, including your top cities, top Shazam song, and even how many plays on radio (terrestrial and digital) you’ve had globally this year.

Your Replay: replay.music.apple.com

Replay for Artists: artists.apple.com

Just launched: Apple Music Replay 2025, which is now built into Apple Music on iOS. And yes… this 4th year in a row mine is topped by Taylor.

The new Lyrics Translation function in Apple Music on iOS 26 is really helping me figure out what is going on the new ROSALÍA album (which is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, btw)

The Crate (Halloween Edition) on Apple Music Playlist · 51 Songs

please note. apple's excellent "the crate" music playlist is in halloween mode again.

if you're sick of the same-old spookus tunes, this is the place to be. music.apple.com/us/playlist/t...

Plus listen here: tunein.com/radio/Stream...

Just launched: you can now listen live to Apple Music 1, Apple Music Chill, Apple Music Club and all the other Apple Music broadcast radio stations on TuneIn, without subscription and free from ads:

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Apple Music Transfer Tool for Switching From Spotify Now Available in UK and 7 Other Countries Apple has quietly expanded availability of its music transfer tool to six additional countries, allowing users to import playlists and libraries from...

PSA: You can now easily transfer your library and playlists from other services → Apple Music in the UK, Australia, Canada and a bunch of other places.

More info here: www.macrumors.com/2025/08/26/a...

I’ve worked in music for exactly twenty years today (!), so I thought I should write a little bit about it: de-online.co.uk/2025/08/01/v...

I’ve worked in music for exactly twenty years today (!), so I thought I should write a little bit about it: de-online.co.uk/2025/08/01/v...

Hmmm

Apple Music celebrates 10 years with the launch of a new global hub for artists As Apple Music marks 10 years, Apple unveils a brand-new state-of-the-art space in Los Angeles dedicated to artist-driven content.

Read more: www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

To celebrate, there’s a fun new All Time Replay playlist to see what your all time most played songs are (spoiler: Taylor, of course), plus lots going on this week including a countdown of the top most streamed songs plus the unveiling of an amazing new studio space in LA.

Here’s to the next 10 🎉

Apple Music 10 Years

Apple Music is 10 which, as is often the case with such milestones, seems like a very long time and like it happened yesterday.

Some great new Apple Music features were just announced at WWDC — including AutoMix, which automatically transitions between songs, Lyrics Translation and Pronunciation, Pinned content in the Library, Motion Artwork on the lock screen and a whole lot more: www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Viral Chart on Apple Music Playlist · 50 Songs

The global Shazam Viral Chart is available to stream on Apple Music here: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

…and you can see out the full suite of regional charts here: www.shazam.com/charts/viral...

Updated daily on Shazam and Apple Music, the charts use signals unique to Shazam to surface songs going viral in real time, then ranks songs by their weekly growth in Shazam volume.

Image of the Shazam viral charts playlist cover artwork

Just launched: the Shazam Viral Charts, which leverage the Shazam’s data to offer a comprehensive view of today’s fastest-growing songs across the globe.

My blog turned twenty the other week, which means it’s older than YouTube, Google Maps, any many other things: de-online.co.uk/2025/04/26/t...

My blog turned twenty the other week, which means it’s older than YouTube, Google Maps, any many other things: de-online.co.uk/2025/04/26/t...

Just launched: DJ with Apple Music. Build and mix your sets directly from Apple Music’s library of over 100 million songs with Serato, Algoriddim, AlphaTheta and many more.

More details here: apple.co/DJwAM

Shoutout to LCD Soundsystem for recognising the “tired dad” segment of their audience and putting some matinee shows in their Brixton residency run

Introducing Apple Invites, a new app that brings people together Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that allows users to create custom invitations to gather friends and family.

Out today is Apple Invites, a new app that helps you create custom invitations to gather friends and family for any occasion. What’s neat is that Apple Music is built in, so you can easily add a collaborative playlist to soundtrack your event, right on the invite page.

Just launched - Apple Music Replay ‘25, which details everything you’ve been listening to so far this year, is out now, updating every month: replay.music.apple.com

(So far I’ve still been rinsing Kendrick…)

I was raised on Soulwax bootlegs so I’m naturally predisposed to a mashup, but this… this is a masterpiece

Apple talks music fraud: 'On Apple Music less than 1% of streams are manipulated' Apple Music has gone public with its data and opinions on tackling music fraud and stream manipulation, in a speech at Music Ally Connect.

Music fraud is a super important topic - the more manipulated streams, the less artists get paid - and today we talked for the first time publicly about some of the steps Apple Music has being taking to fight it: musically.com/2025/01/21/a...

Apple talks music fraud: 'On Apple Music less than 1% of streams are manipulated' Apple Music has gone public with its data and opinions on tackling music fraud and stream manipulation, in a speech at Music Ally Connect.

Music fraud is a super important topic - the more manipulated streams, the less artists get paid - and today we talked for the first time publicly about some of the steps Apple Music has being taking to fight it: musically.com/2025/01/21/a...

New conspiracy theory: Trump got in due to a shadowy cartel of travel companies in an effort to sell more holidays