Apple Music Replay 2023 Experience Now Live

[MacRumors]

Apple today rolled out the Apple Music Replay experience for 2023, allowing subscribers to see their top artists, songs, albums, genres, playlists, and stations of the year.

Users can watch a custom Highlight Reel at the top of the Replay webpage before diving into more detailed information and expanded listening insights. The highlight reel presents a series of social media-style animated cards that show musical highlights from the past year based on your listening history. Relevant music plays in the background for each card. The highlight reel is viewable on desktop browsers, but it appears to be primarily designed for mobile devices.

After the highlight reel, users can scroll down to see featured sections with more informative breakdowns of their top albums and playlists from the past year. Users can add their Apple Music Replay 2023 playlist to the Music app at the bottom of the page.

Apple has made some changes to the Apple Music Replay experience for 2023, including a darker color palette and new animations in the Highlight Reel. Milestones also can now be viewed on iOS and Highlight sides can be shared directly to social media platforms for the first time. Last year, Apple revamped the Apple Music Replay experience by introducing the Highlight Reel and a series of other improvements.

Apple Music Replay is Apple's answer Spotify Wrapped, but Apple Music Replay remains a web browser only experience. The Music app itself can only show and play a basic playlist of your top songs for the year, ranked by most played, once it has been added via the Replay webpage.

To view your 2023 Apple Music Replay experience and try out the new highlight reel, visit replay.music.apple.com.

Article Link: Apple Music Replay 2023 Experience Now Live

 

[wanha]

This is great, but why on earth won't Apple make this easily sharable like Spotify??

I'd love to tag my most listened artists as I share this on social media, but maybe Apple Music doesn't want or need the exposure.

 

[dustin_]

i can’t get it to load past the login screen

 

[TwoBytes]

Great Idea! Shame i can't subscribe and put these playlists into a folder Apple.

 

[WWPD]

OK, as a new Father apparently Baby Shark is my favorite song and Cocomelon is my favorite artist.

 

[Born Again]

lol omg guys that was pathetic.

There was no musical transitions. It was janky.

A far cry from Spotify wrapped.

 

[vagos]

About 2000 hours of music for 2023. If music was my work I'd have worked for 250 days. Wow!

 

[WhackyNinja]

Why not do it in app instead of a website link

 

[vagos]

Why not do it in app instead of a website link

One reason I can think of. A website is easier to make. Cost cutting.

 

[AppleFan91]

Is anyone else’s also like…wildly inaccurate?
For example, 3 of my top 5 songs came from the same album (as in exact same, not a regular and then greatest hits or re-release. It’s a new album that came out this year and these weren’t singles) yet that album wasn’t in my top 5 and my top album was for a single song I listened to just 21 times lol, meanwhile the album for the above songs wasn’t even listed…

 

[SoldOnApple]

OK, as a new Father apparently Baby Shark is my favorite song and Cocomelon is my favorite artist.

Makes sense. Baby shark slaps.

 

[ssspinball]

This is a real amateur hour launch from Apple. Here's my experience on a MBP:

• Open Music app
• See "year in review" and notice the "view on site" link. 🤨 I want to see this in the Music app, not some website I don't use?
• Click the link anyway and it loads a web player (why?) and of course I'm not logged in there. Well that's annoying.
• Log in and all I see is an animation with the words "This is your Replay" over and over. There is nothing else. Nothing to review, nothing to play, no path forward.

Forcing this to a website is already unexcusable (How many years do they need to build a year in review into the Music app on macOS?!) but how did the above experience pass QA?

 

[reubs]

"What's your favorite song?"

Me, answering: "Probably something by so and so..."

Apple Music replay: "Not so fast, my friend. You listened to "Sea of Sand" by Adia Victoria on Apple Music more than any other artist."

 

[Canyda]

OK, as a new Father apparently Baby Shark is my favorite song and Cocomelon is my favorite artist.

I feel you. Baby Shark made my Top 10 most played in 2022 because of my grandson .

 

[Canyda]

About 2000 hours of music for 2023. If music was my work I'd have worked for 250 days. Wow!

Wow! That's a lot!

 

[Lvivske]

Some of these stats are definitely glitched for me, my top artist by minutes didnt make it into my top 5 albums, despite having more plays per track in Music than some albums they 'calculated' were played more

 

[JohannesO]

Second most mood setting top playlist of 2023 was Replay 2022.
Mile stones of the year: 10,000 minutes listened, 500 artists played, 500 songs played 🤔

 

[inducecurrent]

Such a cheap feeling web experience, shame. Where's the native, SwiftUI, cross-platform, buttery smooth animations? Spotify wrapped is a big deal, I'm surprised this is such an afterthought to the Apple execs.

 

[Lvivske]

One reason I can think of. A website is easier to make. Cost cutting.

The neglect of their Music division, which makes however many millions for the company, to the point we discuss cost cutting and not being able to justify developers on staff is so, so mind boggling

 

[jgreg728]

And it’s STILL a lame browser feature that you have to login to see. APPLE COME ON ALREADY….

 

[jbrons]

Why do music services recap a "year" when there are 33.5 days left in the year? That's 9.1%! It's like celebrating running a marathon at the 23.7 mile mark.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

I enjoyed viewing that this morning, but it came out a little early. I think it should have come out the final week of the year. Does everyone just shut down in December?

 

[AhRiHmAn]

124240 minutes, mostly Metal, well sounds right

 

[dannyyankou]

It says I listened to my top album more times than my top song, and they're from different artists. That doesn't make much sense.

 

[darthgeekonius]

I am personally waiting for Spotify Wrapped. I expected better out of Apple; for those that ask why Nov, if I were a betting guy, it might have something to do with how the music industry operates. The industry shuts down from 1st week of December till about 1st to 2nd week of January. It's like an agreed-upon pause. Next to nothing is happening. If you're in the industry like me, distributor's already sent out notices that if you have any upcoming releases, you must submit them by 1st week of December. This is my best guess.