Apple Music’s year-end roundup is slightly higher this 12 months

Best of 2022 lists and end-of-year recaps are simply across the nook, together with Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform’s flashy interactive characteristic that’s turn into an annual custom that overtakes social media for a couple of stable days. Its fundamental competitor, Apple Music, made some charts for listeners, too, and comes with some modifications this time round.

Apple Music Replay is offered for customers starting right this moment, accessed through the platform’s website. It’s not the primary time Apple Music has tried competing with Spotify’s roundup — it launched Replay in 2019 within the type of customized playlists — however, till now, hasn’t had a significant replace.

This 12 months’s redesigned Replay consists of extra data-heavy, shareable options, like a personalised spotlight reel of prime artists, songs, albums, genres, and whole minutes listened. Fans within the prime 100 of an artist or style will be capable to see their standing, and customers can observe how their listening habits change till December thirty first.

Until now, Apple has primarily let Spotify dominate the year-end evaluations for music streaming. In the previous, Spotify Wrapped has included blended playlists between buddies, interactive video games, and “aura” visualizations of their music style. Charts exhibiting prime artists and genres are practically inescapable on-line on the finish of the 12 months, and Spotify is already teasing this 12 months’s Wrapped as customers eagerly wait to see what information the platform has collected from them in 2022.

Apple Music Replay launched the identical day as YouTube Music’s 2022 Recap characteristic, which is now out there for listeners on the platform. The year-in-review characteristic has turn into a aggressive means for corporations to repackage person information into maximally shareable content material that advantages each side at the very least slightly bit. Streaming platforms get a couple of days of free promotion, and listeners get to fake individuals care about what music they like.