Apple Music catalogue passes 100 million tracks

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By Andy Malt | Released on Tuesday 4 October 2022

Apple has introduced that there are now more than 100 million tracks obtainable on the Apple Tunes streaming service. Which, it suggests, is “simply the biggest assortment of tunes, in any structure, ever”. It is also… well, it is far too several, is not it? We ought to probably get started deleting some.

I never think Apple is heading to adhere to that information, even though. If something, it thinks that there should really be even extra new music readily available. And hence it is tremendous great that a huge outdated stack of new tracks keeps on showing up just about every and just about every working day.

“It’s a range that will continue on to develop and exponentially multiply”, says Apple Music’s Global Head Of Editorial, Rachel Newman, of the major 100 million stat. “But it is much more than just a variety, representing a little something considerably extra substantial – the tectonic shift in the enterprise of tunes making and distribution in excess of these earlier two decades”.

“Every day”, she goes on, “over 20,000 singers and songwriters are offering new music to Apple Songs – tunes that make our catalogue even better than it was the working day ahead of. A single hundred million tracks is evidence of a more democratic house, where any person, even a new artist generating songs out of their bed room, can have the future significant hit”.

Occur on all you bed room hit-makers! Even now, with all this tunes out there, how can any listener ever potentially hope to navigate it all? How can they ever actually identify the 12,809 tracks that aren’t shit? Mindful that folks see algorithms – and specifically Spotify algorithms – as the enemy, Apple is eager to point out that it provides a a lot more personalized touch in that area.

“This is not just an chance to reflect on how considerably we have appear, but also a instant to appear forward to the do the job we have left to do”, states Newman.

“At Apple Songs, human curation has usually been the core to every thing we do, equally in ways you can see, like our editorial playlists and strategies you can’t, like the human touch that drives our recommendation algorithms. Now additional than at any time, we know that financial commitment in human curation will be key in generating us the incredibly best at connecting artists and audiences”.

“We also know that it’s much more essential than ever that we are elevating artists’ voices and delivering possibilities for them to explain to their possess tales and contextualise their music”, she adds. “It is no longer plenty of to just join artists and fans, it is about generating people connections deeper and a lot more meaningful”.

To assistance with that, Apple Audio has announced a new series called ‘Apple Tunes Today’. “We’ll be choosing a new tune each working day and diving into its history”, explains Newman, “because we know that every of the 100 million tunes in our catalogue has its personal story”. Yeah, perhaps.

So, congratulations to Apple Music on its huge bin of tunes – a great deal bigger than Spotify, which is nevertheless going with “over 80 million tracks” on its formal blurbs. I necessarily mean, technically that could imply 100 million as well, I guess. But they never say it do they? So “woo” for Apple.

Despite the fact that, those people Apple types likely should not unintentionally take a peak at SoundCloud’s formal blurb, it boasting to have 300 million tracks. For the reason that that would seriously mess with that “simply the greatest selection of new music, in any structure, ever” declare, would not it?

Probably 200 million and one particular of these tracks on SoundCloud are podcasts, supplied that these formal streaming service stat brags are often a minimal vague regarding what certain sorts of material and creators are currently being provided in the maths.