Apple Music Classical this week debuted a new Top 100 album chart. The list features the most popular classical music albums that are available globally, combining five data sources from over 165 countries. Sources include Apple Music Classical streams, Apple Music streams, iTunes downloads, iTunes song sales, and Shazam tags.
Apple plans to update the Apple Classical Top 100 list every Monday, and it will be available on the Apple Music Classical Home tab. Each chart will include streaming activity from the previous week.
The first top album on the chart is Bach: Keyboard Concertos with Chinese pianist Tianqi Du and the Academy of St Martins in the Fields conducted by Jonathan Bloxham. The top five albums feature artists from Canada, China, Brazil, Latvia, Norway, and the UK.
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that’s both cool and bizarre.
“Top 100 from 300 years ago”
Why no version for Mac OS? For me it would be easier to use on my MacBook Air or iMac rather than iPhone for streaming to my hifi, plus the needed info columns in iTunes/Music are very different in classical compared to rock, pop, jazz and country. In classical there is composer, performer, orchestra, conductor, etc. Why Apple, why?
This will further solidify the top 100 as users will be more likely to stream those albums more than others.