Apple Music has made its Replay 2021 playlist available for users. The feature tracks all of the music a user has been listening to throughout the year and allows them to revisit their most-listened tracks at any point. The playlist is finalized at the end of the year and forms part of the Apple Music Replay end-of-year round-up.
Apple Music is a music streaming service like Spotify or Deezer that gives users access to a library of 70 million songs and can be used on smartphones, computers, smart TVs, and smart speakers, among other devices. Access costs $9.99, but there's a more affordable $4.99 rate for students and $14.99 rate for families that gives access for up to six people. The Music Replay playlist was introduced in 2019 and differs from Spotify's annual 'Your Top Songs' playlists in that it is updated throughout the year rather than provided just at the end.
Of course, at the very start of a year, there is no music to go into the playlist, so the feature doesn't become available immediately. However, MacRumors reports that the 2021 edition is now available, having gone live today. The playlist is updated every Sunday.
Using Apple Music Replay 2021
Apple Music users can access their playlist via the mobile app or the web by navigating to the 'Listen Now' section. Here, they'll find the playlist with the 100 songs they've listened to most ranked in order. As MacRumors explains, the web version provides some additional bits of info like most streamed artists and albums, play counts, and hours listened, but it advises that some 2020 data is still being shown here for the time being.
Although Music Replay wasn't introduced until 2019, it's actually possible for users to listen to their finalized annual playlists going back to 2015 when Apple Music was launched, or back as far as they've been using the service if that's more recent. The older playlists can be found in the same section and added as playlists in the Apple Music menu bar for easy access.
As mentioned, a user's listening data also goes toward their Music Replay end-of-year wrap-up. Like Spotify Wrapped and YouTube Music's 'Your 2020 Music Journey,' that presents back a user's listening habits with various stats and figures at the end of each year. Spotify's personalized end-of-year wrap-up for each user is still the best of the bunch, but Apple has made good strides with its own and we can expect the competition to be closer again at the end of 2021.
Source: MacRumors