Apple Music Now Allows Artists to Personalize Their Profile Page and More

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that artists and bands can now personalize their Apple Music profile page with a custom bio and the option to add their hometown, birth date or year formed, and more. Artists can also quickly add lyrics for their songs on Apple Music.

Apple shared more details about the personalization options and other new features added to the Apple Music for Artists platform in an emailed announcement:

Profile - Image and personality are key to connecting with fans and engaging new listeners. The new Artist Profile section lets artists take control of their Apple Music profiles and connect with fans in their own words. Artists can answer a series of short questions to create a customized biography that displays on their Apple Music artist page. Artists can also optionally add their hometown (or place of origin for bands), date of birth (or year formed for bands), and identify band members, collaborators, influences, and pronouns.

Lyrics - Lyrics have become an integral part of discoverability and the listening experience. Artists can now add their song lyrics to appear alongside their music in Apple Music so fans can read the words behind the beats. Adding lyrics is as easy as copying and pasting formatted lyrics.

Account - Building a great team is part of any artist's success. New permissions in the Account section (formerly Manage) provide an easy way for artists to control who has access to their profile so their team can jump into action and support upcoming releases and keep content new and fresh. Artists can also assign different roles to individuals on their team, specifying admins, analysts, and profile editors.

Measure - Apple Music for Artists insights are now in a single, easy-to-access location under Measure. Artists can chart their performance and monitor Apple Music plays, average daily listeners, iTunes song purchases, and Shazams. Intelligent insights and detailed analytics help artists plan future releases, tour dates, and other activities, like creating merch.

Apple Music for Artists is available to every artist on Apple Music and provides stats like how many streams a song or album has received, average daily listeners, iTunes Store sales, Shazam data, and more. Artists can sign up for an account at artists.apple.com.

The ability for artists to set a custom bio might remind some users of Apple's short-lived social network Ping, which launched in 2010 and allowed users to follow their favorite artists in iTunes. Ping allowed artists to share status updates, photos, and more on their profiles, but the service was discontinued in 2012 due to limited usage. However, the personalized artists pages rolling out now will be much more limited in scope.

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[LoveTo]

Why don’t they fix bugs instead of…..

 

[SignalFi]

Ping is returning🥴

 

[dannyyankou]

Ping walked so Apple Music could run

 

[DeftwillP]

This is still about forkknife, isn't it?

 

[Expos of 1969]

I am keen to hear if any of this will be well received and applauded by the artists.

 

[oneteam]

I wish there was a way to reset my music preferences. I don't listen to the same music I selected years ago when I set up my Apple Music.

 

[Nosmo King]

Could somebody with an Apple Watch Ultra please test if the Siren Alarm is working again. Since on PB 9.1 Beta 3, that isn’t working anymore for me, but it would be nice to know if Apple managed to fix this. Hopefully the PB will be released soon Id so. Thumbs up to whoever can answer my question.

 

[jayducharme]

Apple Music pays artists better than any of the other services, but it still amounts to just pennies unless you have millions of streams. (Near the bottom, paying artists next to nothing, is Facebook.) Apple's interface for artists has been pretty good, but I'm happy about the current improvements.

 

[Internet Enzyme]

And when will these features appear client-side for the users? Is this going to come in an update to iOS or is it entirely server-side and the presentation of this is already supported in the current iOS 16 music app?

 

[cateye]

Apple Music pays artists better than any of the other services,

Nope. That would be Tidal. Apple is #2, followed by YouTube Music. Spotify is lower, but only because that includes the lower per-stream cost for their free/ad-supported tier. Artists (or rather, the rights holder—in most cases, the representing record company) can now opt out of having their music accessible to the free tier if they so choose in order to only get the higher per-stream payout from paid subscribers, which is equivalent to Apple's.

This is the same reason why streams via YouTube Music are paid higher than streams via YouTube, even if the source of the stream is the same (confused yet?)

 

[lostPod]

Ping is returning🥴

Came here to post that! ha!

 

[Kottu]

I cancelled my Spotify family subscription and moved everything to Apple music (with Apple one). To be true, I listen a lot less now because Apple music UI is not as good as Spotify and the search function is... Better not talk about it!
I don't understand when Apple has the best search function 'Spotlight' in Macs and Apple music don't have such easiness.

 

[wayoutwest5505]

I use Toast to compile & burn discs, Mac Music is not easy to use. TwStudios Utah

 

[JippaLippa]

I actually love the album/artist description apple leaves under most artists.
Some are pretty cool.

 

[Stiksi]

Ooh a custom bio! Be still my heart… It’s cool I guess, must have been difficult to relinquish this much (!) control over to artists themselves. The lyrics bit is useful though.

 

[svish]

Good to see the change.

 

[Gengar]

They need to add an option for users to manually match music in their library to songs in the Apple Music catalog.

And I wonder if Rihanna is gonna post about some damn makeup on her profile? 😂

 

[CarlJ]

Ping is returning🥴

I think perhaps the bits of Ping that were useful and workable - a bit of information from the artist themselves? Cool.

 

[JGIGS]

Great! Still waiting for smart playlist creation and modification in iOS. Only thing I feel like it's missing. I think if more people knew about this itunes feature more people would use it. Especially good if you rate your songs or albums.

 

[suns93]

Would be cool to integrate tour dates.

I’m normally not a fan of intrusive notifications but something like “Hey, this band you’ve listened to for hundreds of hours the past year, well they’re coming to town next month, want a link to tickets?”

Of course, allow it to be toggled off.

That’s one of the biggest things I miss about local terrestrial radio - bringing concerts/events to my attention. What has filled that gap?

 

[Travons]

Awesome.
Makes each of them unique.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

I cancelled my Spotify family subscription and moved everything to Apple music (with Apple one). To be true, I listen a lot less now because Apple music UI is not as good as Spotify and the search function is... Better not talk about it!
I don't understand when Apple has the best search function 'Spotlight' in Macs and Apple music don't have such easiness.

Do you think you'll be able to patch things up with your family?

 

[fury88]

When are these profiles going live? And are they not on iOS Apple Music app? I haven’t checked from a Mac/PC yet, maybe they are only on that? Bizarro World.