Apple Celebrates 10 Years of Apple Music With New Campus, Playlists, and More

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art studio complex in Los Angeles and a series of special programs to mark the 10th anniversary of Apple Music.

The new facility is located in Culver City, California and spans three stories and over 15,000 square feet. The space is designed to support the creation of artist-driven content, immersive audio innovation, and connection between musicians and their audiences through various forms of media.

Described as a "creative campus," the new studio includes two advanced radio studios equipped with immersive Spatial Audio playback, as well as modular configurations that can accommodate live interviews, informal conversations, and spontaneous performances. Apple added that the Los Angeles location will serve as the anchor point in a broader network of Apple Music studios operating in cities including New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, and Nashville.

To mark the 10-year anniversary, Apple Music Radio is hosting a day-long programming event today. The schedule begins with a retrospective segment titled "Don't Be Boring: The Birth of Apple Music Radio with Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden" airing from 6 to 8 a.m. Pacific Time. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT, Apple Music 1 will air "10 Years of Apple Music," featuring highlights from artist interviews, exclusive song premieres, and milestone cultural events hosted on the platform. The day concludes with a live event from 4 to 7 p.m. PT titled "Live: 10 Years Of Apple Music," hosted by Lowe and Darden, with a lineup of artists who have played significant roles in the platform's trajectory.

Apple also announced a multi-day programming block that begins on July 1, during which Apple Music Radio will count down the 500 most-streamed songs in the streaming service's history. The countdown will cover 100 songs per day, ending with the top 100 on July 5. On the same day, the company will release the complete "10 Years of Apple Music: Top Songs" playlist for streaming.

In addition, Apple Music subscribers can now access a new personalized playlist called "Replay All Time." Expanding on the company's annual Replay feature, which provides listeners with a retrospective of their most-played tracks each year, Replay All Time aggregates and ranks songs that users have streamed most frequently since first joining the service. The playlist appears in the Apple Music Home tab and is dynamically updated based on the user's full listening history.

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[Sun and Surf]

Math is not their strong point at Apple Music as my list every year certainly is not comprised of my most listened songs.

 

[jdavid_rp]

Would be nice if they could show the times we played a song to have some idea. I see my playlist and I recognise the songs but there are songs that appeared in my year replay as most played but then are like in #95

 

[daabido]

I would like recommendations to be less rubbish. Do you think we can do that yet Apple? I know it's only a new service, but if you could put aside for a moment your hatred of incremental improvement over flashy new doodads, I think it's possible.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

That's cool, now allow for publicly sharable playlists that can be searched for and found in the Music app, by name, by user, and by tracks.

 

[TVreporter]

Where has a decade gone?

Meanwhile I still stick to streaming 80s and 90s rock and grunge!!


Now stay off my lawn!!

 

[aloysiusfreeman]

I would like recommendations to be less rubbish. Do you think we can do that yet Apple? I know it's only a new service, but if you could put aside for a moment your hatred of incremental improvement over flashy new doodads, I think it's possible.

I have found a lot of great music I've never heard of before, either through my account station or the Discover station

 

[jarman92]

Damn, 10 years of Apple Music and they've hardly touched the app or service at all.

 

[Slix]

10 years since the death of the iTunes Store as we knew it before: no more free singles of the week, less 69c song deals, less albums that go on sale weekly, the "new albums from your artists" has been broken for like 5 years now...

10 years and I have yet to subscribe to Apple Music once.🫡

 

[citysnaps]

I have found a lot of great music I've never heard of before, either through my account station or the Discover station

Same here. Though I know positive Apple posts are frowned upon.

 

[QuantumPulse]

I’ve had it since it launched, was with Spotify Premium for a while before. What always clicked for me was the integration with Siri but that’s kind of moot now. I bounce between Apple Music and SXM now.

 

[svish]

Long time since it started. Love the music app. Very easy to use. Any day I prefer Apple music compared to other music streaming apps.

 

[tennisproha]

I'd like to see Apple radio station cater to more musical tastes. I've listening to them from time to time and the recent Chill station is the only one that fits my musical preferences. Apple Music 1 and Hits play very similar stuff.

 

[Donkey Man]

Damn, 10 years of Apple Music and they've hardly touched the app or service at all.

10 years on, and I have never used that service at all as well.

 

[2DeedleD]

10 years since the death of the iTunes Store as we knew it before: no more free singles of the week, less 69c song deals, less albums that go on sale weekly, the "new albums from your artists" has been broken for like 5 years now...

10 years and I have yet to subscribe to Apple Music once.🫡

 

[krell100]

What we want: A bug free Apple Music experience on macOS with QOL updates to make it more useable.

What we get: New 'campus' and playlists.

Frustrating.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Has this service even reached 100 million subscribers yet?!

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[JosephAW]

macOS crashes often and loses changes made to playlists. Please fix that first.

 

[grammatica]

Does anyone else find it strange how Apple is purchasing property it was already leasing and now this campus? I think this campus was already in the works, but it's still superfluous to announce.

To be honest, I think this is art of the $500B Tim Cook promised to the U.S. Government about American investments. Apple is investing $500B and only 20,000 jobs are going to result from that amount? Something doesn't add up.

 

[iDento]

I’ll always use Apple Music and not any of the competitors simply because the ‘library’ and smart lists features on the Mac app that syncs back to the iPhone. I can even edit the meta data of each song. And it actually uploads ‘or matches’ music you own.

No other service comes close if you want an organized library.

 

[entropi]

No other service comes close if you want an organized library.

wait, what?!? if only there was a reliable way to combine a well-maintained local library with the cloud one. right now it only syncs 60-70% of the tracks and you can never count on it...