You Can Get Monthly Apple Music Recaps Now | Lifehacker

Apple Music Replay won’t be fairly pretty much as good as Spotify Wrapped, however it’s getting shut. Apple retains updating its recap characteristic to make it simpler to see and share your listening stats from the yr. Now, it is getting even higher: In addition to yearly recaps of your listening habits, Apple Music will now generate month-to-month recaps as nicely.

Apple beforehand provided month-to-month stats for Apple Music Replay, however this new addition goes nicely past what we had earlier than. When you signal into http://replay.music.apple.com/, you may see a full Apple Music Replay expertise for every month that has handed that yr. Of course, as of right now, that leaves solely January, however it’s a cool breakdown nonetheless.

When you choose January, you first see the full variety of minutes you listened to Apple Music this month, full with floating album artwork and artist photographs. Scroll down, and you will find your high 5 artists for the month, additionally with the full variety of minutes you listened to every.

Next up, your high 5 songs and high 5 albums of the month. You’ll see what number of occasions you performed every tune, and what number of minutes you listened to every album. This is one thing that annoys me about Apple Music, for the reason that app tracks album listens by whole minutes, relatively than by whole performs. That implies that one pay attention of a protracted album might put it on the high of your listing, even for those who listened to different shorter albums extra. For instance, I listened to 82 minutes of The Lamb as Effigy and did not end it (it runs for 96 minutes), and it took fourth place on my Top Albums listing.

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Apple additionally shows your milestones, which you earn everytime you hearken to sufficient of a sure class. For instance, I earned a milestone for listening to a minimum of 250 artists in January, and a minimum of 500 songs. Apple exhibits you two milestones for those who’ve earned them, however you may select See All Milestones to take a look at all of them out.

I’m personally very enthusiastic about this characteristic. I like Apple Music Replay, and I’ve been having fun with trying out my normal stats every month. Knowing we have now a full fledged Replay coming as soon as a month makes it much more enjoyable. Of course, Apple Music nonetheless updates your Replay playlist weekly based mostly on the songs you hearken to most.

The fundamental factor holding Apple Music Replay again proper now could be the very fact that you must view it in your browser. Once Apple figures out run the characteristic instantly in your Music app, it’s going to lastly really feel like a full-fledge Spotify Wrapped competitor.