Apple Music Replay Is Here, Better and More Personal Than Ever

 

Today, Apple Music unveiled the highly anticipated Replay 2024 experience with brand-new insights and features, now available within the Apple Music app. Artists can now also post and share their year-end insights, with Replay now available to them in Apple Music for Artists. 

 

Apple Music also revealed its 2024 Year-End charts, spotlighting the biggest songs of the year by Apple Music streams, Shazam tags, radio spins, read lyrics and more. Kendrick Lamar’s "Not Like Us" takes top-streamed song on Apple Music globally, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” is the most identified song on Shazam this year, and Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” is the most spun song on radio around the world.  

 

 Starting today, Apple Music subscribers worldwide can access a comprehensive look back at their year in music through their most-played songs, artists, and albums of 2024. This year, users can access the experience directly from the music app, discover expanded listening insights, and share motion videos from their personal highlight reel. 

 

iPhone users on iOS18.1 or later can access their Replay 2024 experience directly in the Apple Music app from the Home, New, and Search tabs. Users with previous iOS versions can still access the experience via the microsite on mobile or desktop, available at replay.music.apple.com. All insights* on Replay are optimised for sharing with family and friends, on their social channels, or on any messaging platform. 

 

Expanded listening insights in Replay 2024 include: 

 

Fans can listen to all their most-played songs from 2024 with Replay 2024 mix. They can rediscover past years’ top-played songs with the Replay mix series, available for all years they have been qualifying subscribers to Apple Music. And dive back into their top content of past months and years with the Replay insights archive. 

 

Apple Music Replay is available all year with monthly insights and continues to update through the end of the calendar year, so music lovers can keep listening, exploring and sharing all year long. 

 

Brand new this year, artists can now celebrate their year in music, with Replay in Apple Music for Artists. Available on their Apple Music for Artists dashboard, artists can share insights to help them celebrate the year. 

 

Insights include:  

 

All qualifying artists with an Apple Music for Artists account can access their Replay insights. They can download and share both video and stills of their insights by downloading available assets from the Apple Music for Artist iOS or web apps.

 

 

 

 Apple Music today unveiled its 2024 Year-End Charts, celebrating the biggest songs of the year by Apple Music streams, Shazam tags, radio spins, read lyrics and more. 2024 was a historic year across the board, as more women reached the year-end global songs chart than ever, global genres soared to new heights, and many of the top ranks went to artists who had never made the year-end charts before. 

 

Read on for a rundown of Apple Music’s full suite of year-end charts, including the Top Songs of 2024: Global, the Top 100: Shazam, the Most-Read Lyrics, Top 100: Sing and, for the first time ever, the year-end Shazam Global Radio Spins chart.

 

 Thirty-nine songs on the Top Songs of 2024: Global are either by or feature female-identifying artists, marking the biggest year for women in the chart’s seven-year history. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso" comes in at No. 3, the biggest song of the year on Apple Music worldwide by a female-identifying artist. It’s one of two songs by women to make the top five, as Taylor Swift’s "Cruel Summer" takes fifth. With seven songs on the year-end global songs chart, Taylor Swift is the artist with the second most entries on the chart, following only Drake and Morgan Wallen, who have eight each. SZA follows close behind, tying Future with six songs on the chart, led by "Snooze" landing at No. 11, two spots behind Billie Eilish’s "BIRDS OF A FEATHER." 

 

Newcomers rule the 2024 global Shazam chart. Benson Boone takes No. 1 with “Beautiful Things,” with more Shazam tags globally than any other song this year. It’s followed by “Lose Control,” one of two songs by Shazam predictions artist Teddy Swims to make the list. The entire top five is ruled by artists who had never made the year-end charts before: FloyyMenor and CrisMJ’s breakout single “Gata Only” comes in at No. 3, followed by Australian DJ and producer CYRIL’s remix of Disturbed’s “The Sound of Silence” and songwriter and producer Artemas’ “i like the way you kiss me.” While the top 100 is full of even more breakout hits, including from Shaboozey and Dasha, you’ll also see number of catalogue hits making the list, including Natasha Bedingfield’s 2004 pop hit “Unwritten” (No. 46), after the song was featured in the movie Anything But You, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 disco-pop hit "Murder On The Dancefloor” (No. 62), which saw a resurgence in streams after being featured in the movie Saltburn. 

 

Joining Apple Music’s suite of year-end charts for the first time ever is the Shazam Global Radio Spins chart, which uses the power of Shazam to determine what's playing on more than 40,000 terrestrial and digital radio stations around the world. Dua Lipa is the uncontested leader of the Global Radio Spins chart: Not only does she lead the chart with “Houdini,” but she also has more songs on the chart than any other artist, with six. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran tie for second with four songs each, followed by Sabrina Carpenter, with three songs. Pop leads the chart with 54 songs, but it was as strong year for country, as Beyoncé’s "TEXAS HOLD ‘EM," Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Dasha’s “Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)” all land in the top 20. 

 

Elsewhere on Apple Music’ Year-End Charts, Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me” leads Top Fitness Songs, Yunchan Lim leads the Top Classical Albums with Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & 25, and Taylor Swift leads the Top Songwriters chart. 

 

Check out and listen to the full suite of Year-End Charts on Apple Music.

 

1Noah Kahan, "Stick Season"

2Teddy Swims, "Lose Control"

3Benson Boone, "Beautiful Things"

4Sabrina Carpenter, “Espresso"

5Shaboozey, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)"

6Hozier, "Too Sweet"

7Jack Harlow, "Lovin On Me"

8Taylor Swift, "Cruel Summer"

9cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe, “Prada"

10Dasha, "Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)"

11Billie Eilish, "BIRDS OF A FEATHER"

12Sabrina Carpenter, "Please Please Please"

13Beyoncé, "TEXAS HOLD ‘EM"

14Tate McRae, “greedy"

15Post Malone, "I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen)"

16Myles Smith, “Stargazing"

17Sophie Ellis-Bextor, "Murder On The Dancefloor"

18Sonny Fodera, MK & Clementine Douglas, “Asking"

19Chappell Roan, "Good Luck, Babe!"

20Taylor Swift, "Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)”