Apple Music dropped its highly anticipated Apple Music Replay 2024 experience today, boasting a fresh set of features and insights readily available within the music app. This year, artists can also jump in on the fun by sharing their year-end highlights with Replay now accessible in Apple Music for Artists.
Apple Music Replay 2024: Relive Your Personal Soundtrack
Starting today, Apple Music subscribers worldwide can delve into a comprehensive look back at their 2024 listening habits. This includes their most-played songs, artists, and albums. The 2024 update offers several key improvements:
- Deeper Dives: Replay 2024 goes beyond the top 100. Now you can discover if you cracked the Top 500 or even Top 1000 listeners for your favorite artists or genres.
- Streak Fanatic?: Find out your longest streak of consecutive days spent listening to Apple Music.
- Month by Month Memories: Revisit your year in bite-sized chunks with your #1 songs, artists, and albums for each month of 2024.
- Loyal Listener Badge: Did you stick with one artist all year long? Replay 2024 can tell you if you’ve earned the Top Artist Streak badge.
- First Play Flashback: Discover the exact date you first listened to your top song, artist, and album this year.
Replay Your Way: Relive all your most-played songs from 2024 with the Replay 2024 mix. Dive back into past favourites with the Replay mix series, available for every year you’ve been a subscriber. Plus, access your top picks from previous months and years with the Replay insights archive. Remember, Replay is available year-round, so you can keep track of your listening habits throughout 2025.
Apple Music Replay for Artists: A New Collaboration
Brand new for 2024, artists can celebrate their year in music with Replay in Apple Music for Artists. Accessible within their dashboard, artists can share these insights to connect with their fans.
Here’s what artists can see:
- Total Minutes: The total number of minutes their music was streamed on Apple Music in 2024.
- Total Listeners: The total number of Apple Music subscribers who listened to their music this year.
- Top Cities: Cities with the most listeners for their music.
- Top Shazam: Their song was most discovered via Shazam this year.
Apple Music: Made For You
Replay 2024 is just one of many features designed to enhance your Apple Music experience. Here are some others:
- Collaborative Playlists: Team up with friends and family to build playlists together, even reacting to songs with emojis.
- Discovery Station: Get a personalized radio station curated from Apple Music’s massive +100 million song library. It adapts to your evolving tastes, ensuring a never-ending stream of music you’ll love.
- Made For You: This hub is packed with personalized daily mixes, including the new Heavy Rotation Mix highlighting the music you can’t get enough of.
- Apple Music Sing: Belt out your favourite tunes with adjustable vocals and real-time lyrics.
Apple Music Celebrates 2024 with Year-End Charts
Today also marks the release of Apple Music’s 2024 Year-End Charts, showcasing the year’s biggest hits based on streams, Shazam tags, radio spins, and more. Here are some highlights:
- 2024 Was a Banner Year for Women: A record-breaking 39 songs on the Top Songs of 2024: Global feature female-identifying artists. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” takes the No. 3 spot, the highest-ranking song by a woman this year.
- Shazam Superstars: Newcomers dominated the 2024 Shazam chart, with Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” grabbing the top spot.
- Lyrics and Sing Charts Crown Creepy Nuts: The Japanese hip-hop duo’s “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” not only cracked the Top 10 of the Global Songs chart but also reigned supreme on both the Most-Read Lyrics and Top 100: Sing charts.
- Dua Lipa Leads the Inaugural Shazam Global Radio Spins Chart: This new chart leverages Shazam to track the most played songs across radio stations worldwide. Dua Lipa reigns supreme with “Houdini,” and she also has the most songs on the chart.
Dive Deeper with Apple Music
To explore the full details of Replay 2024, year-end charts, and other Apple Music features, visit the Apple Music website or download the app.
