Apple Music is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its streaming service by giving users a throwback to their favorite hits over the last decade. “Replay All Time” — a special version of Apple Music’s annual Replay experience — is being launched for subscribers that allows them to view and listen to their most played songs since joining the platform.
The personalized Replay All Time playlist will be available from the Apple Music Home tab. If you joined the service back when it first launched on June 30, 2015, then you’ll be able to relive how your music tastes have evolved (or not) since the very beginning, all from a single playlist. That’s easier and more comprehensive than manually revisiting your yearly Replay playlists, given Apple Music only launched the feature in 2019.
It’s unclear if this playlist will be permanent or only available for a limited time. If it’s the former, then Replay All Time will presumably be continually updated to reflect the listening history of Apple Music subscribers going forward. We have asked Apple to clarify.
Apple Music is one of the oldest offerings under Apple’s services division, which includes Apple Arcade, Fitness Plus, TV Plus, Podcasts, and Books. These services accounted for $26.6 billion of the company’s $95.4 billion revenue last quarter and are a continued focus for Apple as it shifts towards making customers pay for its platforms, and not just its hardware.
For a broader throwback, Apple Music Radio will reveal the top 500 most-streamed songs from the last 10 years starting on July 1st. The service will count down 100 songs per day, culminating with the top 100 on July 5th, after which the full “10 Years of Apple Music: Top Songs” playlist will be made available to stream. Other celebrations include a week-long block of specials and live programming that’s kicking off today, starting with “Don’t Be Boring: The Birth of Apple Music Radio” between 9AM and 11AM ET.
Apple Music is also opening a new studio space for artists in Los Angeles this summer. Apple says the three-story facility measures more than 15,000 square feet, and includes a 4,000-square-foot soundstage, rooms for photography, editing, and social media content, and two radio studios and a mixing room equipped for spatial audio.
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