Taylor Swift is about to release her newest album called “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19. Last week, the singer had already partnered with Apple Music to release a series of playl...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/13/taylor-swift-riddles-the-tortured-poets-department-apple-music/
Taylor Swift has debuted five curated playlists on Apple Music, dubbed covering each of the five stages of grief and heartbreak. The new playlists are exclusively available on Apple Music, and t...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/05/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-playlists/
Spotify music videos are now available in the UK and ten other countries, but the new feature isn’t yet coming to the US. In other Spotify news, Neil Young has announced that he is returning...
SongCapsule Quiz is a game inspired by iPod’s Music Quiz , but now with a “fresh and modern approach” designed for the streaming era. As the name suggests, the player has to guess the name ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/songcapsule-quiz-challenges-free-to-play/
My colleague yesterday referenced the fact that Spotify is demanding greater freedoms from Apple, but hasn’t yet taken advantage of the ones already offered to the company. Key among these is...
Apple Music has launched a new personalized playlist feature today, with users noticing a new ‘Heavy Rotation’ mix in their Made for You section. Heavy Rotation features the songs you are ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/28/apple-music-new-personal-heavy-rotation-mix/
Apple today updated the Apple Music Replay experience, available at replay.music.apple.com , with visualizations of your favorite music habits by month, rather than just by year. You can see how...
Apple Music appears to be beta testing integration with a service called SongShift, for transferring music from other services into Apple Music. The feature is currently being A/B tested in the l...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/19/apple-music-spotify-playlists-music-transfer/
Timely for Valentine’s Day, Apple Music has launched two new personalized radio stations, available now for Apple Music subscribers . The ‘Love Station’ has a romantic theme featuring son...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/14/apple-music-love-heartbreak-stations/
Miss the Super Bowl Halftime Show or want to watch it again? Here’s how to watch the USHER Halftime Show replay, get the full setlist, watch behind-the-scenes content, and more. more…
Ahead of Super Bowl LVIII kicking off in a few hours, you can head to the Apple Maps app and get a very cool inside look at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apple has overhauled the Apple...
Apple has been in the process of discontinuing iTunes for almost five years. It’s a process that is still ongoing with Windows PCs today. Starting today, Apple Music and Apple TV apps on Window...
Tim Cook is the star of a new NFL Super Bowl Halftime Show (sponsored by Apple Music) that’s straight out of left field. Wait, that’s baseball. Anyway, the Apple CEO is spotted in an Usher te...
Apple Music is offering a wide range of exclusive USHER content, ahead of the singer’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. Dubbed the King of R&B, USHER is one of the best-selling music arti...
When Apple Music said it was paying 10% more in Spatial Audio royalties , there were those among us who cynically wondered whether this meant everyone else would be paid less. That seems to be...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/02/spatial-audio-royalties-controversy/
Apple recently launched its collaborative playlist feature for Apple Music as part of iOS 17.4. This lets Apple Music subscribers share, edit, and enjoy playlists together. Now Apple has clarifie...
Apple Music Replay 2024 is now rolling out. This is Apple’s “top songs by year” playlist that it makes available to Apple Music subscribers at the beginning of every year. The playlist the...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/30/apple-music-replay-2024-playlist/
Update: Apple says iTunes and Apple Music are back online, but AppleCare on Device purchasing is offline. All resolved now. Apple Music may be experiencing an outage for some users. Both Downde...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/29/apple-music-is-down-for-some-users/
iOS 17.4 is taking the Apple Music SharePlay experience from CarPlay and bringing it to the house. Apple is expanding the SharePlay music control feature to work with both HomePod and Apple TV. m...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/26/apple-music-shareplay-homepod-apple-tv/
Apple this week launched the Apple Musical Classical app in some Asian countries, including China and Japan. Although the app was launched last year in dozens of countries, it wasn’t available ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/24/apple-music-classical-asian-countries/
Spotify in-app subscriptions aren’t currently possible, thanks to Apple’s 30% cut – but the company has today previewed the experience it hopes to offer to European customers from March. ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/24/spotify-in-app-subscriptions-previewed/
For years, it’s been possible to share a playlist you’ve made on Apple Music with others. However, a new feature allows for shared, editable playlists in iOS 17.3. Here’s how to use Apple M...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/23/apple-music-collaborative-playlists-how-to-use/
Apple on Monday released iOS 17.3 along with other software updates that come with new features, including collaborative playlists for Apple Music subscribers. The feature lets you team up with o...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/22/apple-music-collaborative-playlists/
Apple Music is now encouraging artists with a financial incentive to make their music available in Spatial Audio, which offers an immersive surround sound experience when listening with AirPods ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/22/apple-music-spatial-audio-bonus/
Apple has updated the Mac to macOS Sonoma version 14.3. New features include Apple Music collaborative playlists like iOS 17.3 and more. more…
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/22/macos-14-3-sonoma-is-now-available-with-these-new-features/
Although iOS comes with a native Apple Music app, there are some third-party apps that offer even better experiences for those who subscribe to Apple’s streaming service. If you’re an Apple M...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/29/best-iphone-apps-to-enhance-your-experience-with-apple-music/
With the release of iOS 17.1 in October , Apple added a new “Favorites” feature for Apple Music. iOS 17.2 further expanded on this with the addition of a new “Favorites” playlist and the...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/15/apple-music-favorites-library-setting/
We learned yesterday that the European Union looks set to impose an App Store anti-steering ban on Apple . That is, Apple would no longer be allowed to prevent Spotify and other music services ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/14/app-store-anti-steering-rules/
In addition to the new Stolen Device Protection feature , iOS 17.3 beta 1 also re-adds support for collaborative playlists in Apple Music. This time, there’s a fun twist: you can now react to s...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/13/apple-music-collaborative-playlists-emoji/
Apple will soon be handed a major loss in its antitrust battle with Spotify in the European Union. According to Bloomberg , EU regulators are preparing a ruling that would prohibit Apple from “...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/13/app-store-rules-ban-spotify-european-union/
Apple is hoping to incentivize more artists and labels to use spatial audio on Apple Music. Bloomberg reports that Apple will start “offering incentives to artists and record labels to produce...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/11/apple-music-spatial-audio-playback-incentives/
One of the headlining features of the first iOS 17.2 beta was support for Apple Music collaborative playlists. Apple then removed this feature with iOS 17.2 beta 4 last week , and unfortunately,...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/05/apple-music-collaborative-playlists-delayed/
A third round of Spotify layoffs this year will see some 1,500 employees lose their jobs in the run-up to the holidays. This follows the loss of 600 jobs at the start of the year, and several h...
Taylor Swift was crowned the “Apple Music Artist of the Year” a few weeks ago, and the festivities aren’t stopping anytime soon. Apple today announced that it will be holding a free “Ta...
With Spotify Wrapped having launched this past week, I can’t help but think of three specific feature requests I’d like to see implemented into Spotify. As someone who works from home and sp...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/01/spotify-for-iphone-wishlist-3-things-id-like-to-see/
Continuing with the “year-in-review” trend of the day, Apple Music has shared an in-depth look at the top songs of the year . This comes after Taylor Swift was crowned Apple Music’s Artist...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/28/apple-music-top-songs-of-the-year/
Alongside end-of-year recaps for Apple Books and Apple Podcasts , the full Apple Music Replay 2023 recap is also now available. This shows Apple Music users a breakdown of their listening data fo...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/28/apple-music-replay-year-in-review-2023/
Apple Music fraud has fallen by 30% in the past year, says a new report, after the company implemented stronger protection against so-called streaming manipulation. The most obvious example of...
Apple Music Classical, included as part of a standard Apple Music subscription , launched as an iPhone only app in the spring … but is now available on the iPad too. The v1.1 update rolling ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-music-classical-is-now-available-on-the-ipad/
Apple and Sony have partnered to offer a new deal to PlayStation 5 owners, giving up to six free months of an Apple Music subscription . As long as you have a PlayStation 5, new customers can g...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/15/free-apple-music-for-playstation-gamers/
TikTok is rolling out a new feature that offers deep integration with Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music. Starting today, you can easily save songs from TikTok directly to your music library ...
As we approach the end of 2023, it’s time to start checking out your Apple Music Replay data. Apple’s “top songs by year” playlist is available on Apple Music every year. You can also fin...
Apple Music for Artists has been overhauled with a new “Listening Now” feature that offers real-time data for listening analytics. The feature rolled out today via Apple Music for Artists on ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/09/apple-music-adds-new-real-time-listening-analytics-for-artists/
Apple has named Taylor Swift the Apple Music Artist of the Year for 2023. “Across the charts, streams, and concert stadiums filled with screaming, bracelet-wearing super fans, Swift undeniably...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/08/taylor-swift-apple-music-artist-of-the-year/
Apple this week held a special event to announce new Macs, but what the company didn’t tell is that it has just quietly discontinued the “Apple Music Voice Plan” that let users access the e...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/01/apple-music-discontinues-voice-plan-siri/
Similar to other streaming platforms, Apple Music lets users choose whether or not they want to share what they’re listening to with their friends on the platform. This history also influences...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/26/ios-17-2-apple-music-listening-history-focus-mode/
In addition to the new Journal app , iOS 17.2 also includes new features for Apple Music. One of these new features is now an automatic “Favorites” playlist based on songs you’ve marked as ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/26/ios-17-2-collaborative-playlists-favorites/
Apple is updating Shazam with a new feature it calls Concerts. The new section in the app will push personalized event recommendations for nearby performances based on Shazam history. more…
One of my favorite features of Apple Music is its beautiful and robust implementation of lyrics. On the Mac, this also includes a beautiful fullscreen interface with lyrics, a visualizer backgrou...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/11/apple-music-mac-fullscreen-lyrics/
There are many iOS apps available on the App Store that help users enhance their Apple Music experience. While most of them function as third-party players, there’s a new app called LivePod tha...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/10/livepod-apple-music-up-next-live-activity/
Apple delivered a long-requested feature this week when it enabled following shows on Apple Music Radio. How Apple went about providing this feature is clever. However, there are some drawbacks f...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/27/follow-apple-music-radio-shows-subscribe/
With iOS 17, Apple has introduced a new interface for its Podcasts app , which now has a new Now Playing screen, as well as more search filters and a better Up Next experience. The company also a...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/25/apple-music-radio-shows-podcasts/
We first heard back in June that Spotify Supremium might be the name given to the company’s long-awaited lossless audio tier, and that now appears to have been confirmed by code found within t...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/22/spotify-supremium-lossless-audio/
iPhone 15 went USB-C, and so did the wired earbuds that used to come in the box. Nothing weird about that. Something perhaps more unexpected? Apple’s $19 USB-C EarPods apparently support lossle...
Following the launch of Apple Music Classical earlier this year, Apple is once again expanding its footprint in the classical music industry. This time, the company has acquired BIS Records, a re...
Apple Music is getting some new features with iOS 17, including a new Now Playing interface and a section dedicated to song credits. And Android users don’t need to worry about missing out beca...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/08/apple-music-player-ios-17-android/
Apple Music subscribers are discovering a new station today called, er, Discovery Station. Apple has also updated the animated artwork for Station in Apple Music to match. more…
https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/07/apple-music-discovery-station/
We’re more than halfway through 2023 and Apple Music has shared today which artist holds the record for the most first-day streams of an album. Have a guess? Hint, as it turns out, it’s not T...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/31/apple-music-reveals-most-new-album-streams/
Spotify subscriber numbers grew significantly in the second quarter of the year, says the company, citing big growth in both free and paying users … more…
The next Apple Music Live performance is set with Burna Boy’s show from the London Stadium streaming for free. Here’s how to watch on July 19. more…
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/17/apple-music-live-concert-burna-boy-july-19/
The Emmy Awards are coming up in September and ahead of the annual event, nominations have been revealed. Apple TV+ content along with Rihanna’s Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show have earned...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/12/apple-earns-59-emmy-nominations/
As Apple’s services grow more important to both the company and customers, CIRP is out today with a new report looking at how Apple Music use compares with Apple TV+ across different age group...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/12/how-apple-music-apple-tv-use-varies-by-age/
An application to register an Apple Music trademark has been denied in its entirety, after the Cupertino company tried to include protection of the name for live music performances … more…
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/07/apple-music-trademark-denied/
One of the differences between Apple Music Classical and the main app is that the Classical app highlights the song credits. And after many users have asked for that feature in the main Apple Mu...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/05/apple-music-song-credits-ios-17/
While there isn’t much insight into how the streaming music wars are playing out, a new report from Music Business Worldwide hopes to share some perspective. more…
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/03/apple-music-spotify-us-subscribers/
Bob Clearmountain, the US recording engineer who mixed Bruce Springsteen’s album, says that he hopes Spatial Audio will bring back the days when people sat down and actively listened to music ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/22/spatial-audio-transforms-music/
Apple Music launched high-quality lossless audio streaming all the way back in May 2021 , available to Apple Music subscribers at no extra charge. Bloomberg today reports that Spotify is fina...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/20/spotify-lossless-audio-but-you-have-to-pay-for-it/
Apple Music isn’t known for being a social network. Apple tried that over 10 years ago when it launched and subsequently killed iTunes Ping. But despite not having a clever name, Apple Music h...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/16/apple-music-social-features-hands-on/
It’s an experience I’m sure we’ve all had. Your flight takes off, you browse through the music selection on the in-flight entertainment system, decide you’d rather listen to your own Appl...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/09/apple-music-downloaded-music/
iOS 17 is now available in beta for developers , and the pre-release version of the iPhone update includes a few changes for CarPlay. An update to Apple Music is the biggest change, but there’s...
Apple Music has finally added a feature that has existed on the Android version of Apple Music for a while, has been a staple of iTunes on desktop, and in fact used to exist in the iOS Music app ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/05/apple-music-cross-fade-ios-17/
After buying Primephonic in 2021, Apple premiered Apple Music Classical on iPhone at the end of March. Starting today, Android users with an Apple Music subscription can also tune in to the clas...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/30/apple-music-classical-android-no-ipad-mac-carplay/
Apple Music launched a neat new feature today that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite artists’ tours, know exactly what songs they’re playing, and even have the option to buy concer...
Apple is keeping the ball rolling on pre-WWDC feature announcements. In a new press release, Apple announced that it is rolling out new concert discovery features for Apple Music and Apple Maps....
https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/16/apple-music-set-lists-tour-dates-more/
Apple Music is not working for some users this morning. While many are complaining about the trouble on Twitter and elsewhere, Apple hasn’t officially acknowledged the downtime yet. In the mean...
Apple Music Live, the popular live performance series from Apple, is returning for a second season next week. Apple says it’s teaming up with Ed Sheeran for a live performance at Eventim Apoll...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/05/ed-sheeran-apple-music-live-concert/
If you’re an Apple Music or Spotify who finds it frustrating to quickly start listening to your favorite albums, a new app from developer Adam Bell might help solve that problem. The app, calle...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/28/apple-music-spotify-home-screen-albums-widget/
Apple is rolling out a set of updates to its Windows apps today, including Apple Music, Apple Devices, and Apple TV. These apps, which are designated as “Preview” apps by Apple, allow Windows...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/25/apple-music-windows-media-keys-lyrics-more/
Spotify paid subscriptions grew faster than expected in the first quarter of the year, but the company is still losing...
Earlier this month Petey AI which offers GPT smarts for Apple Watch made the jump to iPhone along with Live Activities support, and other enhancements. Now Petey has received its latest update wi...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/24/petey-ai-iphone-and-apple-watch-apple-music-support/
A growing number of AI-generated songs are being uploaded to Apple Music and Spotify , and music label Universal Music Group has said that these involve breach of copyright. Some of these songs ...
The Apple Music trademark owned by the Cupertino company does not cover live performances, following an appeal by a trumpet player… more…
It’s been almost two years since Apple announced Spatial Audio songs with Dolby Atmos in Apple Music, which makes the audio more immersive and three-dimensional. While the feature was only avai...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/30/apple-music-spatial-audio-sonos-speakers/
iOS 16.4 is officially here and in addition to the headlining changes, the app also makes a few improvements to the Music app. There are new animations, easier access to your profile page, and m...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/28/ios-16-4-new-apple-music-features/
A new Apple Music Classical video tour provides a quick overview of the app, highlighting the powerful search features, hidden gems by popular composers, the ability to browse by instrument, and...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/28/apple-music-classical-video-tour/
Apple announced earlier this month that its new Apple Music Classical app will become available to users on Tuesday, March 28 . However, some users located in Asia were already able to download t...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/27/apple-music-classical-design-looks/
The Apple Music Classical app appeared on the App Store for pre-order, with the iPhone maker confirming it would go live on March 28. Now that this date has arrived in some countries, the app is...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/27/apple-musical-classical-begins-global-rollout/
Apple Music users are taking to Reddit to complain about an apparent data-leaking bug that is causing other people’s playlists to appear in their libraries. The problem also appears to affect ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/22/apple-music-lost-data-random-content/
New data this week from the Recording Industry Association of America highlights that streaming continues to grow and dominate more of the music industry revenue. Interestingly, the data also hi...
Spotify’s mythical HiFi tier “is coming at some point,” at least according to a new update from the company’s co-president Gustav Söderström. Spotify first announced HiFi more than two ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/15/spotify-hifi-delays-apple-music/
Apple has officially announced its new classical-focused music app that will feature over 5 million tracks from “new releases to celebrated masterpieces.” While the launch of the free app is...
Apple has acquired the classical music streaming service Primephonic in 2021 with a promise to integrate it with Apple Music in the future with a new “Classical” app. After nearly two years,...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/09/apple-music-classical-app-isnt-bundled-ios/
Yesterday, Spotify announced what it described as its “biggest evolution yet,” with a new TikTok-style Home feed that combines music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more into a single feed. The r...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/09/spotify-redesign-apple-music/
Apple has officially taken the wraps off its Apple Music Classical application. The company says that the app will be available on March 28, and existing Apple Music subscribers will be able to ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/09/apple-music-classical-release-date/
Apple on Thursday released multiple new betas to developers, including iOS 16.4 beta 1 and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1. As we’ve already seen, the latest beta software for iPhone and iPad comes with som...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/16/ios-16-4-interface-tweaks-apple-music/
Apple Music launched support for Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos back in June 2021. Since then, the catalog of songs available in these new formats has dramatically expanded. If you’ve struggle...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/14/apple-music-spatial-audio-songs/
Rihanna’s return to music at Super Bowl LVII was also Apple Music’s first year sponsoring the halftime show. Whether you missed it or want to see it again, here’s how to watch the Rihanna...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/13/watch-rihanna-halftime-show-replay/
Seven years since her last album and five years since her last live performance, Rihanna’s highly anticipated return is happening tonight at Super Bowl LVII . Follow along for how to watch Riha...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/12/how-to-watch-rihanna-halftime-show/
Apple announced last year that it will be the new sponsor of the Super Bowl Halftime Show, starting with Super Bowl 57 on February 12, 2023 with a performance by Rihanna. A few days ahead of the...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/06/twitter-applemusic-hashflag-super-bowl-halftime-show/
The number of Spotify paying subscribers passed 200 million for the first time in the last quarter. The company added 10M new subscribers to hit 205M paid accounts, and 489M in total. However, t...