Apple Music's 'Browse' tab refreshed with new look, wider playlist selections

Apple has tweaked the "Browse" tab of Apple Music on iTunes and iOS, providing users easy access to the "Daily Top 100" playlists.

The "Daily top 100" playlists were launched in 2018, and feature what Apple Music listeners in countries across the world have been listening to. Another new addition is the "We're Loving" section, which are curated album selections by Apple Music staff.

Most of the rest of the tab is unchanged. For March 22, additions include a "Weekend Warrior" section, which is likely just for Friday, and another section that has appeared for most of the month called "Visionary Women."

Apple added 116 "Daily Top 100" playlists, with the lists updating at 12 a.m. Pacific time. The addition of the charts arrived at a time when the power of streaming services in measuring a song's popularity is being viewed differently. Major charts around the world have updated how they calculate a song's positions in the charts, due to the altered changing spending habits of consumers, opting to listen to streams instead of buying tracks or albums outright.

In July 2018, just prior to the addition, Drake topped the Billboard 200 album chart under refreshed rules, where streams were given more weight if they were made through a paid subscription, as opposed to a streaming service. In that week, Drake set a new one-week record for audio streams from a single album in the U.S., achieving over 745 million streams.

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j2fusion 153 comments · 13 Years

About 5 years ago

Has anyone had issues with their HomePod unable to access Apple Music. Yesterday and today I get invalid account password in my Home App and the HomePod can’t connect to Apple Music. When I re-enter the password it goes away for a while and then comes back. I have not changed the password recently. I wonder if it has to do with the redesign.

zoidbert 16 comments · 10 Years

At this point, iTunes should be a little more customizable for both the Store and Apple Music subscribers. When I go to Browse, I have to deal with stuff I have no interest in -- why not have preferences where the landing page on Browse is set to show me new releases from the genres I go to most, or choose in preferences?

spice-boy 1450 comments · 8 Years

I wonder what percentage of AI readers subscribe to Apple Music? I don't how bout you?

dewme 5737 comments · 10 Years

j2fusion said:

Has anyone had issues with their HomePod unable to access Apple Music. Yesterday and today I get invalid account password in my Home App and the HomePod can’t connect to Apple Music. When I re-enter the password it goes away for a while and then comes back. I have not changed the password recently. I wonder if it has to do with the redesign.

Perhaps. I've been having similar issues since March 3rd where HomePod would disconnect overnight and fail first thing in the morning with the message "Some accessories can not access your Apple Music account" shown in the Home app. I tried every combination of logging off and logging back on, removing the device from the Home app, and resetting the device. No matter what I did, the next day the problem would reoccur. Opened a support call with Apple and they could find nothing wrong on their end and sent me off to the Apple Store and the Genius Bar. In uncharacteristic fashion the Genius Bar was clueless about what to do. They don't seem to have any special diagnostic procedures for the HomePod and kind of just stared at it like it was a gray alien corpse found in the Area 51 desert. After some verbal armwrestling they agreed to replace the unit. Got the replacement unit a couple of days ago and so far it's staying connected. Fingers crossed. The old one worked perfectly for over a year and it was in pristine condition with a strong WiFi connection. It sits across the room from an Echo Show and the Echo (which is also connected to my Apple Music) had no issues whatsoever over the same time frame so perhaps it was something in the hardware. Time will tell.

techno 737 comments · 20 Years

j2fusion said:

Has anyone had issues with their HomePod unable to access Apple Music. Yesterday and today I get invalid account password in my Home App and the HomePod can’t connect to Apple Music. When I re-enter the password it goes away for a while and then comes back. I have not changed the password recently. I wonder if it has to do with the redesign.

Mine was not responding to "Hey Siri" yesterday