TORONTO — Apple Music today unveiled its new “City Charts”, making it one of the first streaming platforms to spotlight the most popular music in more than 100 cities around the world.
“While standard charts rank music based simply on number of plays, Apple Music’s City Charts combine plays and additional signs of local popularity to rank the top 25 songs gaining momentum with listeners locally, truly highlighting the local culture and individual music scenes of the cities they represent,” reads the company’s press release.
For Canada, Apple Music has created charts for eight cities, including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.
Updated daily, the city charts are featured in Apple Music’s Charts page and are accessible via the browse or search pages, or by asking Siri to play a local city chart. Users can also add their favourite city charts to their library, download them and share them with friends.
Apple also launched today several new features for Apple Music subscribers, including:
- Motion for artist detail pages: Artists can now add their own moving images to artist detail pages.
- Lyrics sharing: Users can share their favourite lyrics using Messages, Facebook and Instagram Stories. Lyrics link back to the exact moment in the song, and subscribers can play the snippet in Messages without leaving the conversation.
- Record label pages: Users can dive into the latest and most popular releases from hundreds of record labels.
- Search for record labels: Search now shows record labels in Suggestions and Top Results for relevant searches. The new Record Labels filter can be used to refine results.
- Explore other albums from favourite labels: Albums released from selected labels now have a link to the Record Label page just below the track list.
- Library “Made For You”: Apple Music makes it easier to find personal mixes and Replay playlists with a “Made For You” library shortcut.
City Charts and the other new features are available to Apple Music subscribers as of today. Non-subscribers can view City Charts and preview songs here.
