The Replay 2024 experience has been released by Apple Music, bringing fresh perspectives and functionalities to the Apple Music app. Artists may now use Apple Music for Artists to offer year-end insights. The top songs of 2024 are highlighted in the Year-End charts based on Shazam tags, radio spins, Apple Music streaming, and read lyrics.
According to Apple’s latest announcement globally Apple Music subscribers can now access a complete year in music by analysing their most-played songs, artists, and albums of 2024, learning expanded listening insights, and sharing motion videos from their personal highlight reel.
Features like stations, collaborative playlists, personalised playlists, and Apple Music Sing are all part of Apple Music’s Replay 2024. With collaborative playlists, users can invite one another to choose and edit tracks by working together on playlists and responding to songs with emojis. With daily updates to reflect changing musical preferences, Discovery Station provides a customised radio station that plays the greatest songs from Apple Music’s collection of over 100 million songs.
One of the customised daily mixes offered by Made For You is the Heavy Rotation Mix, which is updated every day and considers listeners’ recent listening patterns. Included in the collection of personal mixes are the Get Up! Mix, New Music Mix, Favourites Mix, Friends Mix, and Chill Mix. With customisable vocals and real-time lyrics, Apple Music Sing lets users sing along to their favourite songs. It also provides multiple lyric views so that fans can take the lead, perform duets, sing backup, and more.
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According to the company iPhone users with iOS 18.1 or later will be able to access Replay 2024 directly in the Apple Music app, while previous iOS versions can access it via the microsite at replay.music.apple.com. All insights on Replay are optimised for sharing with family, friends, social media, or messaging platforms.
Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” is the top song on the Top Songs of 2024: Global, becoming his biggest hit on Apple Music. Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” debuts at No. 2, followed by Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” at No. 3, and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” at No. 4. Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” rounds out the top five.
Whereas, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is the biggest song of the year on Apple Music worldwide by a female-identifying artist. Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” takes fifth place, with Swift having seven songs on the year-end global songs chart. SZA follows closely behind with six songs, with “Snooze” landing at No. 11, two spots behind Billie Eilish’s “BIRDS OF A FEATHER.”
According to Apple, the 2024 global Shazam chart is dominated by newcomers, with Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” at No. 1 and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” at No. 2. The top five are dominated by artists who have never made the year-end charts before, with FloyyMenor and CrisMJ’s “Gata Only” at No. 3, Australian DJ and producer CYRIL’s remix of Disturbed’s “The Sound of Silence” at No. 3, and songwriter and producer Artemas’ “i like the way you kiss me.” The chart also includes catalogue hits like Natasha Bedingfield’s 2004 pop hit “Unwritten” and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 disco-pop hit “Murder On The Dancefloor,” which saw a resurgence in streams after being featured in the movie Saltburn.
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Apple Music has added the Shazam Global Radio Spins chart for the first time to its year-end charts, determining what’s playing on over 40,000 radio stations worldwide. Dua Lipa leads the chart with “Houdini,” having six songs on the chart. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran tie for second with four songs each, followed by Sabrina Carpenter with three songs. Pop leads the chart with 54 songs, while the country had a strong year with Beyoncé’s “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM,” Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” and Dasha’s “Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)” all in the top 20.
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