March 10, Zack Kulm. Americans have caught the music streaming bug. Companies like Apple Music and Spotify provide users with millions of songs, innovative music discovery tools and lots of playlists. After launching in , Apple Music quickly grew into one of the most used platforms in the country.

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Use this tip on your iPhone or Mac -- it'll make you look at your music library in a whole new way. For me, looking back at the music I listened to in the past year always provides insight and triggers memories, good and bad. I like to think of it as a musical record of another year gone by. But as an Apple Music subscriber, I've had to rely on third-party apps to give me a year in review recap of which songs I listened to the most. Not this year. Apple Music now has Replay playlists that will give you all the feels as you go through them. The playlist isn't created automatically, but it only takes a few seconds for you to request and add to your Apple Music account. I listen to music all day long, and there are days when I get stuck in a rut of listening to the same album or artist on repeat. Having a playlist of the top songs I listened to this past year is a fun way to break out of my norm, but while still listening to something that I enjoy.
A list of playlists? In , the state of music discovery has really come to this. Now that on-demand streaming is no longer a novelty, services from Spotify and Rhapsody to Google Play Music and Tidal are competing to out-curate one another. One of the main ways these companies are working to bring new music to the surface is the playlist — to the point where these simple sets of songs now cry out for a little curating of their own. Thing is, with some variations, the types of professionally made playlists available on each interactive streaming service — as opposed to radio-style services epitomized by Pandora — are starting to become fairly consistent, too. Since launching June 30 , Apple Music has stood out for a particular emphasis on creative song selection by experts.