There are now 100 million songs on Apple Music
Apple has announced that there are now over 100 million songs available to stream on Apple Music, touting how the total represents 100,000x the number of songs that were available to listen to with the original iPod.
Apple Music launched in 2015, with a catalog of 30 million songs from artists worldwide, with over 20,000 singers and songwriters delivering new songs to Apple Music every day.
“Back in the 1960s, only 5,000 new albums were released each year. 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,” says Apple in a press release shared on Monday. “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.”
“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. It’s phenomenal growth by any metric. The entire history, present, and future of music is at your fingertips or voice command.”
“More music than you can listen to in a lifetime, or several lifetimes. More music than any other platform. Simply the biggest collection of music, in any format, ever. One hundred million songs — it’s a number that will continue to grow and exponentially multiply. 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.”