How to access your Apple Music Replay for 2024

Spotify’s Wrapped feature — which provides a year-in review of your listening habits, top artists, and more — has become a fan favorite in recent years. Generally, Wrapped lands each year in the late November or early December timeframe, serving up insightful analytics and more for active subscribers of the streaming service, and this year, it looks like it will be dropping on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

However, you happen to be a user of Apple Music rather than of Spotify, then there’s no reason to fret: Apple provides a conceptually similar feature of its own, which it calls Apple Music Replay. Here’s how to easily access this lesser-known feature, which dropped today, as well as details of what it actually brings to the table.

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How to access your Apple Music Replay

Apple provides a dedicated web portal for the feature

According to Apple, the Replay feature “calculates your top songs, albums, playlists, genres, and stations.” It does so by analyzing your listening history, your number of plays, and the amount of time you’ve spent listening and streaming audio content.

Here’s how to navigate to your personal Apple Music Replay:

1. Head over to Apple’s official Music Replay web portal.
2. Click or tap on the Continue button.
3. If you aren’t already signed in to your Apple Account, you’ll be prompted to do so next.
4. Click or tap on the Jump In button.
5. From here, you’ll find a tabbed interface which lets you switch between the various months of the year — tap or click on a month to surface its corresponding analytics.
6. Within the Replay interface, you’ll be able to jump between your monthly insights, your year-end Replay, your year-end highlight reel, and more.

Additionally, you’ll need to have been using the service for long enough for it to gather your overarching trends and insights. Once you’ve played enough music, you should receive an automatic push notification that your Replay is ready to be looked at.

If you find that your Apple Music Replay isn’t populating with results even after extensive use of the service, the company provides a troubleshooting guide on its website for turning Listening History on across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android.

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Spotify may reign supreme, but Apple Music is a superb music streamer in its own right

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Spotify is often regarded as the de facto music streaming platform of the modern era, but it’s far from the only contender in town. Apple has a rich history when it comes to involvement in the music industry, stretching back to its rich iTunes and iPod legacy of yesteryear.

These days, Apple Music is broadly available across platforms in the form of native applications, and it offers tons of features and pricing options. The inclusion of lossless (higher quality) audio streaming is a genuine product enhancement, and the introduction of Apple Music Classical is a unique and appreciated development as well.

Whether you’re a Spotify user or an Apple Music user, it’s simply never been easier to access, consume, and discover music from around the world in real-time. And, if you’re on a quest to try out something different entirely, then Pocket-lint has a dedicated article covering the best alternative music streaming apps currently out there.

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