Apple Music Replay might not be quite as good as Spotify Wrapped, but it’s getting close. Apple keeps updating its recap feature to make it easier to see and share your listening stats from the year. Now, it’s getting even better: In addition to yearly recaps of your listening habits, Apple Music will now generate monthly recaps as well.
Apple previously offered monthly stats for Apple Music Replay, but this new addition goes well beyond what we had before. When you sign into http://replay.music.apple.com/, you’ll see a full Apple Music Replay experience for each month that has passed that year. Of course, as of today, that leaves only January, but it’s a cool breakdown nonetheless.
When you select January, you first see the total number of minutes you listened to Apple Music this month, complete with floating album art and artist images. Scroll down, and you’ll find your top five artists for the month, also with the total number of minutes you listened to each.
Next up, your top five songs and top five albums of the month. You’ll see how many times you played each song, and how many minutes you listened to each album. This is something that annoys me about Apple Music, since the app tracks album listens by total minutes, rather than by total plays. That means that one listen of a long album could put it at the top of your list, even if you listened to other shorter albums more. For example, I listened to 82 minutes of The Lamb as Effigy and didn’t finish it (it runs for 96 minutes), and it took fourth place on my Top Albums list.
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Apple also displays your milestones, which you earn whenever you listen to enough of a certain category. For example, I earned a milestone for listening to at least 250 artists in January, and at least 500 songs. Apple shows you two milestones if you’ve earned them, but you can choose See All Milestones to check out them all out.
I’m personally very excited about this feature. I love Apple Music Replay, and I’ve been enjoying checking out my general stats each month. Knowing we have a full fledged Replay coming once a month makes it even more fun. Of course, Apple Music still updates your Replay playlist weekly based on the songs you listen to most.
The main thing holding Apple Music Replay back right now is the fact you need to view it in your browser. Once Apple figures out how to run the feature directly in your Music app, it’ll finally feel like a full-fledge Spotify Wrapped competitor.
