Apple Music Replay 2026 Now Available

[MacRumors]

Apple Music subscribers can now access their Replay 2026 playlist, which is rolling out to users who meet Apple's minimum listening requirements for the year.

As in previous years, Replay 2026 ranks your most-played songs on Apple Music from 1 to 100, updating weekly as your listening habits evolve throughout 2026. Apple typically activates Replay in early February, once January listening data has finished processing, allowing subscribers to track their music activity well ahead of the traditional year-end recap.

Unlike a static summary released in December, Replay primarily functions as an evolving playlist. From its first appearance in February, rankings refresh every weekend, gradually building a complete picture of your top songs across the year. By the time December arrives, Replay 2026 becomes a finalized list of your 100 most-streamed tracks.

Replay 2026 can be accessed directly in the Apple Music app by opening the Home tab, scrolling to the "Replay: Your Top Music" section. It is also available through Apple Music for the web, where users can sign in with their Apple ID. Once the Replay 2026 playlist is added to your library, it updates automatically every week.

New generated playlists can sometimes take several hours to appear. If Replay 2026 does not appear after a short while, the most common causes are disabled listening history or insufficient listening activity. Apple requires listening history to be enabled and enough streamed music to generate rankings. Listening history can be checked in Settings under Music, where "Use Listening History" must be turned on. Light or infrequent listening may delay Replay activation, but the playlist should appear automatically once these conditions are met.

Apple Music Replay has been available annually since 2019, originally launching as a web-only experience with an accompanying playlist. Apple gradually expanded Replay's scope in the following years. From 2022 onward, the feature placed greater emphasis on detailed statistics and visual summaries, including structured breakdowns of listening activity across the year. With more recent updates to Apple Music, Replay's detailed views are now available directly inside the Apple Music app, including monthly breakdowns and expanded listening insights alongside the Replay playlist itself.

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[TruthWatcher412]

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[bluecoast]

A little too early for this feature for 2026 maybe?

 

[Attirex]

my music library consists of one Elvis song that I listen to over and over

 

[Kar98]

It’s time…

 

[AppleWes]

A little too early for this feature for 2026 maybe?

At first I thought that but it's weekly, not the year end recap.

As in previous years, Replay 2026 ranks your most-played songs on Apple Music from 1 to 100, updating weekly as your listening habits evolve throughout 2026. Apple typically activates Replay in early February, once January listening data has finished processing, allowing subscribers to track their music activity well ahead of the traditional year-end recap.

Unlike a static summary released in December, Replay primarilony functions as an evolving playlist. From its first appearance in February, rankings refresh every weekend, gradually building a complete picture of your top songs across the year. By the time December arrives, Replay 2026 becomes a finalized list of your 100 most-streamed tracks.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

A little too early for this feature for 2026 maybe?

Not really. It's a playlist that updates every Sunday based on your listening. Instead of waiting till the end of the year for all this stuff, you basically get it every week. It's actually one of my favorite Apple Music features.

 

[svish]

Good to see this. However it is not yet visible in my Apple Music app. Will check it out again soon.

 

[Canyda]

Good to see this. However it is not yet visible in my Apple Music app. Will check it out again soon.

I found it at the bottom of my January 2026 Replay chart and had to add it to my playlists.

 

[antiprotest]

Wait, it's 2026 already?

 

[tomtad]

my music library consists of one Elvis song that I listen to over and over

No U2 album?

 

[sos47]

2026, ah of course
(Another macroulette story)

 

[sjsharksfan12]

Wait, it's 2026 already?

Time flies, don't it? 😉

 

[bluecoast]

At first I thought that but it's weekly, not the year end recap.

Nostalgia served out on a weekly basis? I mean...

 

[bluecoast]

Not really. It's a playlist that updates every Sunday based on your listening. Instead of waiting till the end of the year for all this stuff, you basically get it every week. It's actually one of my favorite Apple Music features.

I think that 'weekly rewind' - or something like that - would be better. Putting the 2026 label on it feels a little too much!

 

[sjsharksfan12]

I think that 'weekly rewind' - or something like that - would be better. Putting the 2026 label on it feels a little too much!

But it's a culmination of your year's listening habits. What the playlist shows in November is impacted on what you listen to now. A Weekly rewind is basically starting from zero every week. What this does is you start at the beginning of the year and it's a journey all throughout the year.

 

[jtfolden]

When I try to access the playlist from the Home Screen in Apple Music on my Mac it instead opens the web page version in Safari?

 

[Blue Nova]

How about accessing it from HomePod mini? Would Siri understand? I doubt it.