Apple Celebrates Reaching 100 Million Songs on Apple Music

[applezulu]

Every day it gets harder to find new good music.
Almost everybody is an artist, as you don't need to know how to sing to be a singer.
No need to know how to play an instrument, just copy/paste pieces from the work of others.
Want to attract tons of people to your concerts? Sing in underwear.
Want the crowds to cheer? Curse, curse, curse, swear, swear, swear, and be very explicit.

Under these conditions, I don't really care if the collection has reached 100M songs.
High volume doesn't equal to high quality.

Mick Jagger can't carry a tune in a bucket and Leonard Cohen couldn't even find the bucket. John Lennon lost an infringement suit to Chuck Berry for borrowing heavily from "You Can't Catch Me" to create "Come Together," and RUN DMC were sampling away back in the 1980s. Madonna (now 64 years old) sang in her now-vintage underwear a generation ago. Frank Zappa was singing naughty words in songs about naughty things a half century ago.

While individual tastes may vary, no one with any credibility could say the aforementioned artists -who each committed at least one of the effronteries you listed above- did not produce any "good music."

Of course, while each generation also creates an ample supply of forgettable tunes, there are always great musicians both famous and obscure who produce amazing work. With the advent of streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music, there is no barrier to digging around in old back catalogs and new material alike.

The truth is, if you can't find "new good music," it's because you're not looking for it.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

I tried Apple Music for a month or so last year and absolutely hated it coming off of Spotify. Hated. I can only assume Apple Music has done as well as it has because of Apple's enormous competitive advantage within their own ecosystem.

Definitely, it's absolutely miles behind Spotify

 

[Apleeseed84]

The fact that I still need iTunes on a computer to create smart playlists, can’t download and back up my hi/res songs and search or organize songs by format and bitrate, Apple Music needs a lot of work. 100 million songs don’t mean much when their genre selection is so much narrower than Spotify

 

[GtrDude]

"...and commented upon..."
Lol. So we don't comment on any more. We comment upon.

 

[GtrDude]

Until you can use actual folders and three or four levels of subfolders inside of those and then play lists I have zero interest in Apple Music. Everything based on playlists is just plain nutty.

 

[Nicky G]

I'm very excited about Apple Classical, and this is coming from a guy that doesn't really listen to much classical music today.

But I've always wanted to explore it, and I feel like the new app will be a gateway into a new musical frontier for me. Should be great!

 

[Maigrais]

I request only 1 feature (as matter of fact it was taken away). The ability to clear a playlist without deleting each track one by one.

 

[zapmymac]

iTunes Match user since day1, only in the last year did I cave and get APPLE One. Subbed to Amazon for a year, Spotify for a few months…I find Spotify and Amazon have better curated playlists imo.

Apple music and Shazam don’t work together, it keeps telling me to sub to AM when I want to find a song. Annoying, and I can’t find the same remixes on AM that Spotify has ( friends will tell me about a track)

 

[svish]

Good to hear. Wish to see more live concerts in Apple Music in the future

 

[CoMoMacUser]

Meh. I'll stick with Deezer, which is cheaper via promos and has a better UI, a Windows app and all of the latest releases at the same time they hit Apple, Spotify, et al.

 

[efktd]

Wow! That's pretty impressive. Best opportunity to hold a concert at Apple Park now

Ahh, yes! I miss the Septmentber music concerts days. (Forgot what they called it) but 30 days of live shows was great.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Mick Jagger can't carry a tune in a bucket and Leonard Cohen couldn't even find the bucket. John Lennon lost an infringement suit to Chuck Berry for borrowing heavily from "You Can't Catch Me" to create "Come Together," and RUN DMC were sampling away back in the 1980s. Madonna (now 64 years old) sang in her now-vintage underwear a generation ago. Frank Zappa was singing naughty words in songs about naughty things a half century ago.

While individual tastes may vary, no one with any credibility could say the aforementioned artists -who each committed at least one of the effronteries you listed above- did not produce any "good music."

Of course, while each generation also creates an ample supply of forgettable tunes, there are always great musicians both famous and obscure who produce amazing work. With the advent of streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music, there is no barrier to digging around in old back catalogs and new material alike.

The truth is, if you can't find "new good music," it's because you're not looking for it.

I didn't say I can't find any new good music. I said: "Every day it gets harder to find new good music".
It was hard in the days of Madonna and before Madonna.
There has always been some kind of naughty words in songs through the decades. But these don't compare to the amount of profanities found in a lot of music coming out in recent years. If you didn't notice it, you were not paying attention.
In the stream of today's music, I can still find some new good music. Not much, but at least it's something. The rest is either junk or simply not my kind of music (which I still respect if the production and artists are good).
back in the 80's I didn't like most of Madonna's music, but I still respected her as a performer.

 

[jamcgahey]

I'm happy for the milestone. When I first read it I thought they were celebrating 100mil subs. Reading through the comments I'll just add to the echo chamber here and say that the service is good, not great. I really wish they would start updating it outside of the iOS update cycle and do so as a standalone app. I like the way it is organized but it is buggy. There are features I'd like to see added, but just fixes the bugs and slow load times would be a huge win for me. The rest is icing on the cake.

 

[Nsousa]

Yeah….just give me Airplay with HiRez Lossless. Until then I dont care…

 

[ackmondual]

The fact that I still need iTunes on a computer to create smart playlists, can’t download and back up my hi/res songs and search or organize songs by format and bitrate, Apple Music needs a lot of work. 100 million songs don’t mean much when their genre selection is so much narrower than Spotify

Isn't iTunes still at a half a gigabyte footprint? If I ever want to get back to putting songs on my iPod Classic, I may as well go with an alternative at this point.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Apple today celebrated reaching the milestone of 100 million songs on Apple Music and commented upon two areas where it is working to improve the service.

Reflecting on the growth of music on Apple's platforms in a press release, Apple Music's global head of editorial Rachel Newman today said:

She added that the rise of Apple Music has helped democratize the music industry as a whole amid a massive expansion of content:

Looking toward the future, Newman pointed out the two areas of focus for improving Apple Music in the future, starting with human curation to drive recommendation algorithms.

The statement also pointed out that Apple Music seeks to provide more context for music on the platform, such as via Apple Music Today:

After adding Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio in 2021, Apple Music this year gained DJ Mixes in Spatial Audio, concert livestreams, playlist sorting and favorite artists, and exclusive live releases and covers with "Apple Music Sessions. It is expected to release an all-new app called "Apple Classical" specially for classical music by the end of 2022.

Article Link: Apple Celebrates Reaching 100 Million Songs on Apple Music

I thought Apple had reached this milestone like over a decade ago, no?

iTunes had more and I believe they had imported/migrated to Apple Music the same number.

 

[Apleeseed84]

Isn't iTunes still at a half a gigabyte footprint? If I ever want to get back to putting songs on my iPod Classic, I may as well go with an alternative at this point.

It is, but what sucks is that since i have windows I can’t download Hires music on my itunes library, I have been using my ipod classic as of a late, surprisingly everything works beautiful, the only thing I need is more ipod classic games from apple!!

 

[Powerbooky]

Want to attract tons of people to your concerts? Sing in underwear.

Honestly, the recordlabels did filter a lot of crap back in the day and often for the good. But still some s**t came through like this guy Axl Rose running and screaming on stage in his underwear. Iggy Pop anyone? Ok, taste is something personal, but I must say that the guys working at the music labels did ignore some great talent too.

That filter has been partly removed with the rise of the internet and all its services. Personally I think its the best thing that happend. I've found more good music when iTunes Music came than I could find in the local record store. Those automated playlists based on your own search parameters indeed work great. Except those that are curated by those same old pluggers from the music labels.

 

[AndroidSortOfGuy]

I just don't get the celebration? Hundreds of albums are released daily, it is only normal that the catalog would increase from 90 to 100mi songs soon. If streaming services (and record companies) increased their revenue with artists, THAT would be worth celebrating.

 

[StudioMacs]

I just don't get the celebration? Hundreds of albums are released daily, it is only normal that the catalog would increase from 90 to 100mi songs soon. If streaming services (and record companies) increased their revenue with artists, THAT would be worth celebrating.

it’s to get people to take note of the size of Apple’s catalog compared to older streaming services Like Spotify.