Apple Music Replay aggregates users' top-played songs of the year

Apple on Wednesday updated Apple Music with a new feature called Replay, providing listeners a dynamically refreshed, dedicated hub for their top-played tracks of 2019 and beyond.

Available now, Apple Music Replay is similar to Spotify's "Wrapped," a popular year-in-review feature that presents subscribers a list of their most-played songs.

Unlike Wrapped, however, Apple's take is constantly refreshed and updated throughout the year, meaning the playlist changes to reflect evolving user tastes, TechCrunch reports. Playlists and metadata used to create the dynamic Apple Music Replay are updated on Sundays, according to Apple.

While the company is rolling out Replay for 2019, Apple Music subscribers will also find playlists for past years, which have been retroactively generated using listening data. Users who started with the service when it launched in 2015, and continued their subscription into 2019, should have five playlists available in a new section in the Apple Music app or online.

Some users might be forced to visit and sign in to the dedicated Apple Music Replay website to generate an initial playlist.

Along with insights and information about listening trends like the number of artists and albums listened to over the year, Replay breaks down top content by hours, number of times played and other learned metrics. Past years are likewise divided into distinct listening categories for easy consumption.

Like other Apple Music playlists, Replay tracks can be shared with friends, downloaded, saved and more.

Apple Music continues to add features as it competes against streaming industry stalwart Spotify. In October, Spotify said its paying subscriber base hit 113 million people with growth supposedly doubling that of Apple's service. Apple Music reached 60 million subscribers in June.

16 Comments

mattinoz 2473 comments · 9 Years

About 5 years ago

There was a third party version of this last year that required you to request meta-data from Apple to work.

I guess it was fairly popular.

mobird 758 comments · 20 Years

Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.

fastasleep 6451 comments · 14 Years

mobird said:

Maybe they should start by working on the correct way to list artist alphabetically. No, Aaron Neville should not get listed under the "A's" because his FIRST name begins with "A". He should be listed under the "N's" because his LAST name begins with "N".
Some artist are arranged by their last name and some artist arranged by their first name. There is no rhyme or reason to the methodology utilized. There are so many fundamental flaws with Music...Lots of opportunity for overall improvement to the service.

I 100% disagree. I expect it to be sorted as mine are, by the first letter of the artist/band sans articles like "A" or "The" etc. If you don't like it, that's what this panel is for, and it takes like 5 seconds to edit an entire album:

1983 1225 comments · 12 Years

Probably nearly all Hip-Hop...boring!

zhtfreak 31 comments · 6 Years

I added all mine. I love nostaljic stuff like this! Anyone know if it's US only? Me and a friend like to listen to AM playlists and talk over FaceTime, but my friend isn't in the states.

Really cool idea for Apple to do this though.