Apple Music Replay is here, better and more personal than ever

Apple Music has announced the long-awaited Replay 2024 experience, with more information and features, which is now available on Apple Music. Artists can now also post and share their year-end information, and access Replay on Apple Music for artists

In addition, Apple Music has released its end-of-2024 charts, which rank songs by plays on Apple Music, Shazam searches, radio airplay, lyric queries and more. Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' is the most listened to track on Apple Music worldwide; Benson Boone's 'Beautiful Things' has been the most searched song on Shazam this year; and Dua Lipa's 'Houdini' has topped radio airplay worldwide.

Replay, your personal soundtrack

Starting today, Apple Music s around the world can access a full retrospective of their musical year through the songs, artists and albums they listened to most in 2024. This time, they can access the experience directly from the app, discover more information about their listening and share videos of their personal summary with the highlights.

From an iPhone with iOS 18.1 or later, you can access the Replay 2024 experience directly from the Home, New and Search tabs in the Apple Music app. With an earlier version of iOS, you can also enjoy this service via replay.music.apple.com on mobile or desktop devices. All Replay information is optimised to be shared with friends and family, on social networks or any messaging platform

The extended listening information available in Replay 2024 includes:

• Top 100, 500 and 1,000 listeners: The Top 100 list from previous years has been expanded and you can now see if you made it into the Top 500 and Top 1,000 listeners of an artist or genre.
• Listening streaks: You can now find out the longest series of consecutive days listening to Apple Music of the year.
• Replay by month: Relive the year with your number one songs, artists and albums from each month of 2024.
• Number 1 artist streak: based on the most listened to music each month, it is now possible to discover if you are a loyal fan with this metric, available if you have had an artist as number 1 of the month several times in a row.
• First played date: you can see the date when the number 1 song, artist and album of this year was first heard.

s can listen to all their most-played songs of 2024 with the Replay 2024 mix. They can also rediscover their favorite tracks from all their years of subscribing to Apple Music, as well as relive their favorite content from recent months and years with the Replay information archive.

New Replay for Artists

New this year, artists can now celebrate their musical year with Replay from their Apple Music for Artists dashboard, where they have the option to share information with their fans.

The information includes:

• Total minutes: The total number of minutes that people subscribed to Apple Music have listened to their music in 2024
• Total listeners: The total number of people subscribed to Apple Music who have listened to your music in 2024
• Top cities: The cities where their music is most listened to
• Shazam's Top Song: The song that has been discovered the most times this year on Shazam

Replay information is available to all eligible artists with an Apple Music for Artists . They can and share videos and images from the iOS and web apps.

Apple Music, tailored

The new Replay 2024 experience rounds out a comprehensive suite of Apple Music features including personalized stations and playlists, collaborative playlists and Apple Music Sing

Collaborative playlists allow you to create lists with other people and react to songs with emojis. Apple Music subscribers can collaborate on playlists with friends and family. s can invite others to select and edit tracks, and can even add emoji reactions to specific tracks.

The Discovery Station offers a personalized radio station that chooses the best music from the Apple Music catalog, which consists of more than 100 million songs. It is constantly updated, so listeners can enjoy an endless stream of music that evolves as their tastes change. The Discovery Station will only play music that is new to the listener, whether they know the artist or not, and will never repeat the same song.

Made for You offers personalized daily mixes, such as the new Loop Mix that brings together the music you love lately. It updates every day and creates a mix that reflects your most recent listening patterns. The more you listen, the more your mix changes and evolves. It's the easiest way to get back to the tracks you're listening to over and over again this season. This mix s the series of personal mixes, including New Music Mix, My Favorites Mix, Friends Mix, Get Up! Mix and Chill Mix.Apple Music Sing lets you sing along to your favorite songs with adjustable vocals and real-time lyrics. The service offers several lyrics views to help fans take the lead, perform duets, do backing vocals and more, all integrated into Apple Music's unrivaled lyrics feature. Combined with a growing catalog of tens of millions of the world's most singable tracks, Apple Music Sing is a fun and easy way to get involved anywhere and everywhere.

Apple Music playlists 2024

Apple Music has announced its 2024 charts, which celebrate the year's biggest hits by Apple Music streams, Shazam searches, radio airplay, lyric searches and more. 2024 was a historic year in many ways, as more women than ever before made their mark on the year-end global song chart, international genres reached new heights and many of the top spots went to newcomers to the year-end charts.

The number 1 song on the Top Songs of 2024 is Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us', which in 2024 became the rapper's biggest hit to date on Apple Music. Behind 'Not Like Us' come songs from three newcomers to the year-end global songs chart. Benson Boone debuts in second place with the pop ballad 'Beautiful Things', followed by the addictive summer hit 'Espresso' by Sabrina Carpenter in third place, the country single 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' by Shaboozey in fourth place and 'Cruel Summer' by Taylor Swift in fifth place

The summary of all Apple Music's year-end lists includes Top Songs of 2024: Global, Top 100: Shazam, Most Viewed Lyrics, Top 100: Sing and, for the first time, Top on Shazam Radio: Global year-end.

Top Songs 2024: Spain

Feid 'LUNA'

KAROL G 'If I Had Known You Before'

Myke Towers 'LA FALDA'

Rauw Alejandro 'DILUVIO'

DELLAFUENTE 'Manos Rotas'

SAIKO 'BADGYAL'

Iñigo Quintero 'Si No Estas'

FloyyMenor 'Gata Only'

Rvssian 'Santa'

Quevedo 'Columbia'

Top Shazam Songs 2024: Spain

Benson Boone 'Beautiful Things'

Teddy Swims 'Lose Control'

CYRIL 'SturmblinIn'

Disturbed 'The Sound of Silence (CYRIL Remix)'

Ana Mena 'Madrid City'

KAROL G 'If I Had Known You Before'

Feid & ATL Jacob 'LUNA'

Enrique Iglesias & Maria Becerra 'ASI ES LA VIDA'

Isabel Aaiun 'Potra Salvaje (Hard Remix)'

BENNETT 'Vois sur ton chemin (Techno Mix)'

The best year for women in the history of the global song list

39 songs on the Top Songs of 2024: Global list feature the signature or collaboration of artists who identify as women, the best year for them in the seven-year history of the list. Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' ranks third and is the most successful track of the year on Apple Music globally by an artist who identifies as female. It is one of only two female tracks to make the top five, as Taylor Swift's 'Cruel Summer' is in fifth position. With seven tracks on the year-end global songs list, Taylor Swift is the artist with the most entries, only behind Drake and Morgan Wallen, who have eight each. Taylor is followed by SZA, tied with six tracks with Future, who with 'Snooze' has climbed to number 11, two places behind Billie Eilish's 'Birds of a Feather'.

Benson Boone and Teddy Swims lead the global Shazam chart

Debutants dominate the 2024 global Shazam chart. Benson Boone is number one with 'Beautiful Things' thanks to his record-breaking worldwide Shazam searches. He is followed by 'Lose Control', one of two songs to make the list from Shazam-discovered artist Teddy Swims. The top five are dominated by newcomers to the year-end charts: FloyyMenor and CrisMJ's breakthrough single 'Gata Only' is in third place, followed by Australian DJ and producer CYRIL's remix of Disturbed's 'The Sound of Silence', and 'i like the way you kiss me' by songwriter and producer Artemas

Dua Lipa tops Shazam's first year-end global radio airplay chart

Apple Music's year-end lists now include the Top on Shazam Radio: Global, which takes advantage of Shazam's ability to identify what's playing on more than 40,000 traditional and digital stations worldwide. Dua Lipa is the undisputed leader of this list. In addition to occupying the top spot with 'Houdini', she also holds the record for entries, with a total of six. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are tied for second place with four tracks each, followed by Sabrina Carpenter, who has three. Pop leads the list with 54 tracks, but country has also made a strong showing, with Beyonce's 'TEXAS HOLD 'EM', Shaboozey's 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' and Dasha's 'Austin (Boots Stop Workin')' in the top 20.

As for the rest of Apple Music's year-end lists, 'Lovin On Me' tops the Top Fitness Songs, Yunchan Lim takes the top spot in Top Classical Albums with Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10 & 25 and Taylor Swift is at the top as a songwriter.