Apple Music reaches 100m music milestone. Rival Spotify says it has ‘over 80m’ by itself platform

Apple Music simply revealed that it has reached the milestone of 100 million songs on its platform.

The service, which initially launched in June 2015, introduced the brand new stat in a submit on Monday (October 3).

Within the submit,  Apple Music’s International Head of Editorial Rachel Newman, writes that, “Twenty-one years on from the invention of iTunes and the debut of the unique iPod, we’ve gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music.”

Newman added: “It’s phenomenal progress by any metric. All the historical past, current, and way forward for music is at your fingertips or voice command.

“Extra music than you may hearken to in a lifetime, or a number of lifetimes. Extra music than some other platform. Merely the most important assortment of music, in any format, ever.

“100 million songs — it’s a quantity that can proceed to develop and exponentially multiply. However it’s greater than only a quantity, representing one thing way more important — the tectonic shift within the enterprise of music making and distribution over these previous 20 years.”

Apple Music rival Spotify, in the meantime, which launched in 2008, states by itself web site that it has “over 80 million tracks, together with greater than 4 million podcast titles”.

Spotify is the most important music subscription service globally, with 433 million month-to-month energetic customers, together with 188 million subscribers, throughout 183 markets.

Apple doesn’t get away subscriber numbers for Apple Music. In July, Apple revealed that it had reached 860 million paid subscriptions throughout all of its providers.

Apple Music confirmed again in June 2019 that its service had handed the milestone of 60 million subscribers. In June this yr, J.P Morgan mentioned that it expects Apple Music’s subscriber quantity to hit 110 million by 2025.

Elsewhere within the weblog submit, Apple Music’s Newman provides that every day, “over 20,000 singers and songwriters” are delivering new songs to Apple Music.

In February, Spotify revealed that greater than 60,000 new tracks at the moment are being ingested by its personal platform each single day.

“100 million songs — it’s a quantity that can proceed to develop and exponentially multiply. However it’s greater than only a quantity, representing one thing way more important — the tectonic shift within the enterprise of music making and distribution over these previous 20 years.”

Rachel Newman, Apple Music

Newman added: “This isn’t simply a possibility to mirror on how far we’ve come, but additionally a second to look ahead to the work we’ve left to do. At Apple Music, human curation has at all times been the core to all the pieces we do, each in methods you may see, like our editorial playlists; and methods you may’t, just like the human contact that drives our advice algorithms.

“Now greater than ever, we all know that funding in human curation can be key in making us the easiest at connecting artists and audiences. With such an enormous expanse of songs, we all know you want somebody there to information you thru. Gone are the times of hitting shuffle in your library: Now it’s on us that will help you uncover new favorites and rediscover forgotten gems, whether or not it’s certainly one of our knowledgeable radio hosts lighting your path, or a handcrafted playlist.”

Apple Music additionally introduced a brand new audio collection at the moment, known as Apple Music In the present day, that it says will “will highlight a distinct music each single day, seven days per week”.Music Enterprise Worldwide