![]() ![]() With such a huge expanse of songs, we know you need someone there to guide you through. ![]() Now more than ever, we know that investment in human curation will be key in making us the very best at connecting artists and audiences. At Apple Music, human curation has always been the core to everything we do, both in ways you can see, like our editorial playlists and ways you can’t, like the human touch that drives our recommendation algorithms. ![]() This isn’t just an opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come, but also a moment to look forward to the work we have left to do. One hundred million songs is evidence of a more democratic space, where anyone, even a new artist making music out of their bedroom, can have the next big hit. Every day, over 20,000 singers and songwriters are delivering new songs to Apple Music - songs that make our catalog even better than it was the day before. Today, anywhere in the world, in 167 countries and regions on Apple Music, any artist of any description can write and record a song and release it globally. But it’s more than just a number, representing something much more significant - the tectonic shift in the business of music making and distribution over these past two decades.īack in the 1960s, only 5,000 new albums were released each year. One hundred million songs - it’s a number that will continue to grow and exponentially multiply. Simply the biggest collection of music, in any format, ever. More music than you can listen to in a lifetime, or several lifetimes. The entire history, present, and future of music is at your fingertips or voice command. Twenty-one years on from the invention of iTunes and the debut of the original iPod, we’ve gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music. ![]() Apple Music’s global head of editorial Rachel Newman answers the question: What’s in a number? ![]()
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