Apple Music has surpassed the milestone of 100 million songs in its catalog, a figure that will continue to grow and multiply exponentially.
Apple Music has gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music. One hundred million songs. The entire history, present, and future of music is at your fingertips or voice command. It’s phenomenal growth by any metric.
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One hundred million songs — it’s the biggest collection of music, in any format, ever. More music than you can listen to in a lifetime, or several lifetimes. The tectonic shift in the business of music making and distribution over these past two decades.
Every day, over 20,000 singers and songwriters deliver new songs to Apple Music. Back in the 1960s, only 5,000 new albums were released each year. Today, anywhere in the world, in 167 countries and regions on Apple Music, any artist can release a song.
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This is not only an opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come but also to look forward to the work that remains to be done, says Apple. Human curation has always been at the heart of everything we do at Apple Music, both visibly, as in our editorial playlists, and invisibly, as in the human touch that drives our recommendation algorithms. We know now, more than ever, that investing in human curation will be critical to becoming the best at connecting artists and audiences.
Now more than ever, we know that investment in human curation will be key to making us the very best. We also understand that it is more important than ever to elevate artists’ voices and give them opportunities to tell their own stories and contextualize their music. It is no longer enough to simply connect artists and fans; it is also necessary to make those connections deeper and more meaningful. And one of the many ways we’re helping to provide context is through the new Apple Music Today series, in which we’ll pick a new song every day and dive into its history because we know that each of our 100 million songs has its own story.