How to see how much you listen to an artist on Apple Music

Apple Music Replay on the web

With Apple Music Replay, you can relive the music that defined your year. Get insights in to your most played artists and albums. And get a playlist with your top songs of the year— and one for every year that you’re subscribed to Apple Music.

How to see how much you listen to an artist on Apple Music

Measure your performance

Success means something different for every artist. Knowing how to read your Artist Analytics can help you decide what specific areas to focus on.

We measure your music’s performance in the following categories:

  • Playsare recorded when a user initiates song playback in Apple Music for more than 30 seconds. We provide a wholistic view of all Plays, including Plays from Apple Music radio stations. (Apple Music radio stations are created when a user picks a song or an artist to generate a custom radio station, or from an Apple Music curated radio station.)
  • Average Daily Listenersare the average number of daily unique listeners in the time frame selected.
  • Purchasesare recorded when a customer buys your song or album from the iTunes Store.
  • Shazamsare recorded anytime your song is recognized by the Shazam app or one of the partner apps that use Shazam technology.
  • Milestonesare a list of insights and all-time bests for your songs and albums, highlighting Top Plays, Top Shazams, and when you’re added to an Apple Music editorial playlist.
  • Video Viewsare recorded when an Apple Music user watches your music video for more than 30 seconds.

Apple Music for Artists is intended to provide performance-level data about all music in which you are listed as a primary artist. We measure analytics for the following types of content:

  • Songsinclude the total plays of a song, including every album and compilation it was released on.
  • Albumsinclude any album, EP, or individually released single.
  • Playlistsinclude any Apple Music editorial playlist.
  • Videosinclude any music video uploaded to Apple Music.

How to Check Apple Music Replay

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The main difference between this new feature from Apple and Spotify Wrapped is that Apple Music Replay is always available to its users and gets updated year-round. The only downside of this feature is that the users can't access it from the Apple Music application directly. You can check your Replay playlists by going to the Apple Music 'Listen Now' tab but to get the full details you need to visit the Apple Music website.

To find your Apple Music Replay 2020 year-in-review, you just need to go to replay.music.apple.com in the Safari browser on your device. After going to the website there will be options to sign-in along with all the details on your Apple Music listening habits throughout the year.

The users have noticed that getting a list of Apple Music top artists and sharing your Apple Music Replay list is not easy to share to different social media platforms as compared to Spotify Wrapped, the playlist can be directly shared from the Apple Music app to Instagram or Snapchat.

Spotify Wrapped New Features

Compared to the Apple music hours that apple uses to enhance the music experience of its users, Spotify wrapped has also some more new features which are listed below:

  • 1. New in-app quizzes allow you to test your skills at predicting the top podcasts, artists, and even top decade you streamed most.
  • 2. You can follow the Story of Your 2020 with your Top Song to witness your top song's journey through the year, from its first stream to its 100th and all the notable listens in between.
  • 3. The developers have decided to share a deeper dive into podcast listening, complete with how many minutes users spent listening and the most binge-worthy podcast of the year.
  • 4. Premium users can look forward to new badges that crown listeners with various titles based on the ways they listened. For example, if a number of your playlists gained significant new followers, you'll be a Tastemaker.
    • If you listened to a song before it was cool (aka hit 50,000 streams), you'll get the Pioneer badge.
    • And based on the number of songs you added to playlists this year, you just might become a Collector.
  • 5. New personalized playlists will help you make the most of what you listened to this year. These range from Your Top Songs, the songs you loved most this year in one convenient place, to Missed Hits, our Wrapped discovery playlist where we recommend popular similar 2020 releases you didn't listen to that we think you might like.
  • Plus, listeners in the U.S., UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada can dig deeper into some of your top artists of 2020 in On Record, a mixed-media experience that highlights your top 2020 artists.
  • 6. Finally, for the first time ever, the developers are opening up the world of Wrapped to non-users.
    • Even if you're not a Spotify subscriber, you can still check out the latest in Spotify's global listening trends.

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Published: December 03, 2020 16:22 IST

Apple Music Replay 2021 is ready

You'll find the Apple Music Replay 2021 playlist at the very bottom of the Listen Now tab, alongside Replay lists from previous years. It’s possible that it will take a while before the list is visible to you. This also has to do with how many songs you have already listened to this year. If you haven't listened to Apple Music enough this year, you won't see the list yet.

In this playlist you will find the songs that you have listened to the most this year, i.e. from January 1st. The playlist is updated every Sunday with new additions, so it's a good way to keep track of what you've been listening to over the coming year.

Apple Music Wrapped - your musical annual overview

Unlike Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay is available all year round. It constantly keeps track of your played songs and artists and uses that to create a playlist of your choice. It also goes back to songs that you often played a few years ago. This list allows subscribers to see if their music tastes have evolved or not.

2021 is almost over, and that means that the time of year-end lists has arrived. Apple Music Replay is a musical annual overview of your 100 most listened to songs in the past year. You can easily create the playlist by following the steps below:

  1. Open the browser on your Apple device and go to the Apple Music Replay 2021 official website;

  2. Optionally, log in with your Apple ID credentials when you see the sign-in screen;

  3. Tap the button to create your playlist (year overview).

Apple Music creates a playlist containing your most popular songs. You can listen to this playlist in the browser or app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

In addition to popular artists, Apple's year-end overview also collects some interesting statistics. For example, you can see who you like to listen to. Apple Music Replay also displays how many hours you have listened to certain artists in 2021.