Apple Music Archives

Apple Music comes to Amazon Echo speakers

10/12/2018

Apple Music comes to Amazon Echo speakers with the rollout scheduled for the week of the 17th December 2018. The integration will allow Apple Music subscribers to access 50 million songs on Echo devices by asking Alexa to play their favourite songs, artists, and albums or Apple Music’s curated playlists from around the world, covering many activities and moods. Customers will also be able to ask Alexa to stream expert-made radio stations centred on popular […]

Steinway creates Apple Music Profile

31/10/2018

Steinway & Sons, award winning makers of pianos, have launched an Apple Music Curator Profile which will contain Steinway’s official playlists and a rotating monthly ‘Steinway Select’ playlist exclusive to Apple Music which will introduce millions of listeners to the best of piano music. The ‘Steinway Select’ playlist, refreshed monthly, will feature the finest new and classic performances across genres. The profile will also feature a mix of classical, jazz, popular, and mood-based playlists alongside […]

Apple completes Shazam acquisition

21/10/2018

Apple announced that it has completed its acquisition of Shazam, the song recognition app with a user base of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music said, “Apple and Shazam have a long history together. Shazam was one of the first apps available when we launched the App Store and has become a favorite app for music fans everywhere, With a shared love of music and innovation, we […]

Genius lyrics database now on Apple Music

19/10/2018

Genius lyrics database is now available on Apple Music as the company makes Apple Music its official music player and will share its lyrics on the service. Genius is the world’s biggest encyclopaedia of music, built by artists, scholars, and super-fans working together to go deep inside their favourite songs. Now the encyclopaedia has a soundtrack with Apple Music subscribers who visit Genius able to play any song in full right from the song page, […]

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Ministry of Sound playlists come to Apple Music

13/10/2018

Apple Music has signed an exclusive deal with the Ministry of Sound to stream its popular dance playlists such as Dance Nation and Rave Nation. As a consequence of the deal these playlists, some of which have hundreds of thousands of followers, will be removed from Spotify and other non-Apple services over the course of the next few days. This is likely to disappoint a considerable number of Spotify subscribers as the Dance Nation playlist […]

Apple Music - UK Top 100 Chart (9th September 2018)

Apple Music rolls out Top 100 Charts

09/09/2018

Apple Music has rolled out 116 ‘Top 100’ Charts, one for every country where it is available plus a Global Top 100. Every chart will be updated on a daily basis at 12am PST (US time). The format is similar to that of playlists or albums and can be found on the Browse page with top Songs and Playlists. With instant and free access not only to the Chart listings but also the tracks themselves, […]

EU approves Apple’s acquisition of Shazam

07/09/2018

The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Shazam by Apple under the EU Merger Regulation. The Commission concluded that the merger would not adversely affect competition in the European Economic Area or any substantial part of it. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: ‘Data is key in the digital economy. We must therefore carefully review transactions which lead to the acquisition of important sets of data, including potentially commercially sensitive […]