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Apple Music names Bad Bunny 2022 Artist of the Year
Global recording artist Bad Bunny was announced today as Apple Music’s Artist of the Year, in acknowledgement of the musician’s artistic…
Apple Music is now available on Xbox
The newly released Apple Music app on Microsoft’s Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles allows users listen to music while playing…
Apple Music Live presents Billie Eilish Live at O2 Arena in London on September 30th
Apple Music will host an exclusive live stream marking the end of Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever, The World Tour” on September 30th…
Apple’s Shazam turns 20, surpasses 70 billion song recognitions
Apple’s Shazam turns 20 today, and as of this week, it has officially surpassed 70 billion song recognitions. A mainstay in popular culture…
Steven Spielberg’s first music video shot on iPhone
Marcus Mumford has taken on a solo career and, for his first music video, he’s enlisted none other than Steven Spielberg to direct…
The spirit of iPod lives on inside your Apple Watch
Apple earlier this month finally discontinued its last iPod, but “the spirit of iPod” lives on inside your Apple Watch …
Was Apple’s iPod touch really even an iPod?
On Tuesday, Apple announced the discontinuation of iPod touch, the last “iPod.” Or was it? Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president…
Plays of Spatial Audio tracks on Apple Music have quadrupled since September
Plays of Spatial Audio tracks on Apple Music have quadrupled since September. The majority of Apple Music subscribers have Spatial Audio …
Apple acquires ‘AI Music’ startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate dynamic soundtracks
Apple has acquired a startup called AI Music that uses artificial intelligence to generate tailor-made music, a person with knowledge…
Music CD sales increased in 2021 for the first time in 17 years
Sales of music CDs increased from 40.16 million units in 2020 to 40.59 million in 2021, according to a yearly report from music data…
Apple’s Shazam has been used more than 1 billion times from Control Center
Starting with iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2, users can use Shazam in the Control Center on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Now, Apple has announced…
Apple’s stock heads toward record after concessions for Netflix, Spotify, other ‘reader’ apps
Apple shares were poised to close at a record high Thursday after the most valuable U.S. company announced it will let Spotify, Netflix…
Apple to allow ‘reader’ apps to link to external websites for users to set up or manage accounts
Apple will let developers of “reader” apps – think Spotify, Netflix, Kindle, etc. – around the world link to an external website to set up…
Apple delays introduction of ‘SharePlay’ feature in iOS 15
Apple has delayed the introduction of the iOS 15 “SharePlay” feature which is meant ot allow users to keep FaceTime conversations going as…
Apple Music’s Zane Lowe: Spatial Audio will transform music
Music is about to change forever. Introducing Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos on Apple Music — high-resolution, three-dimensional Lossless…
Spotify jacks up prices for many of its music subscription plans
Spotify is jacking up the prices of many of its music subscription plans this week in the U.K, and across parts of Europe, with the U.S…
EU antitrust regulators said ready with Apple charges on Spotify complaint
EU antitrust regulators are finalizing a charge sheet against Apple triggered by a complaint by Swedish music streaming service Spotify …
Tom MacDonald’s ‘Fake Woke’ song removed from Apple Music
Apple removed Tom MacDonald’s “Fake Woke” from Apple Music and the iTunes Store at some point on Wednesday night…
iHeart: Radio, Music, Podcasts app is now available on Apple Watch
On Monday, iHeartRadio unveiled its new app for the Apple Watch. The iHeart: Radio, Music, Podcasts app lets you listen to music…
Analyst: Apple Music growing 2.5 times faster than Spotify
Apple’s five-year-old Apple Music, already No.1 in America, the No.1 music market, is gaining on fifteen-year-old Spotify which…
Behind-the-scenes battle between Apple and Spotify revealed
The behind-the-scenes battle between Apple and Spotify was revealed last Wednesday when Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as the heads of Amazon, Facebook…
Apple Music launches ‘Stream Local’ to support South African artists
Apple Music on April 11th will launch a new South American initiative dubbed “Stream Local.” The program forms part of the music streaming giant’s…
Spotify hits 124 million subscribers, but reports loss of $231 million
Spotify hit 124 million subscribers at the end of 2019, up 29% from the previous year, the company reported Wednesday. However, tempering that…
Echosmith’s ‘Lonely Generation’ laments iPhone addiction
Cool kids Echosmith are out with a new album and the title track laments the artificial screen Apple’s iPhone has constructed between reality and “a pixelated version” of real life for a lonely generation…
Introducing MusicBot: The all-in-one Apple Music assistant, powered by Shortcuts
For the past several months, I’ve been working on a shortcut designed to be the ultimate assistant for Apple Music…
Apple Music launches new curated playlist ‘New Music Daily’
Updated every day with fresh songs, Apple Music today launched a new curated playlist called “New Music Daily.”
The fate of Apple’s iTunes Store in macOS Catalina
With the new Music app in macOS Catalina, which retains most of the music functions of iTunes…
Spotify reports bigger-than-expected loss, paid subscribers disappoint
Spotify Technology SA’s lighter-than-expected number of new paid subscribers drove shares as much as 5% lower…
Apple Music may be reducing its free trial period to just one month
Apple may be planning to start offering a one month free trial of Apple Music instead of three months…
Apple’s GarageBand: Better than ever (and still free)
I was in the audience for the 2004 Macworld Expo keynote where Steve Jobs unveiled GarageBand…
Only 17% of Apple AirPods owners have sex while wearing them
It seems that those whose preferred genre is country music were the most satisfied with their sex lives…
Things you need to know as Apple ‘kills’ iTunes
Don’t worry. All your music, movies and podcasts will be fine – they’ll just be stored in a different place and made available through…
It’s alive! Apple’s iTunes doesn’t look very dead
So many publications have been publishing articles about how “iTunes is dead,” but it doesn’t look very dead to me…
No, Apple isn’t killing iTunes on Monday
Why are there so many headlines saying iTunes is ending and the age of digital downloads is over? Because, apparently, writers can’t read, fact checkers can’t check facts, and editors are too busy baiting clicks…
Apple to kill off iTunes as it embraces streaming music with replacement app
For nearly 20 years, iTunes has been the primary way for people to buy, organize and listen to music. It was unveiled in 2001…
Apple updates Music Memos app with full screen support for latest iPhones
Apple’s Music Memos app has finally been updated with full-screen support…
Apple’s new macOS 10.15 Music app code is based on iTunes, not iOS
The new standalone Music app to be included in the next major version of macOS will be an AppKit application…
Amazon preps hi-def music streaming service for $15 per month
It’s a better bit rate, better than CD quality…
Apple to begin dismantling iTunes?
If you use an iOS device, you have long had access to the TV app…
Huntington Beach educators mold musicians of tomorrow using Apple products
At the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts (APA), production is in full swing…
Apple presents the best apps, games, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2018
Today, Apple reveals the Best of 2018, a global collection of top charts and selects from our editors across every category highlighting all of the amazing things to watch, read, listen to and play across apps, music, podcasts, books, TV and movies…
