Personalized Discovery Station on Apple Music
Mike Warner
Streaming Music | Music Education | Self Published Author | Independent Artist | Speaker | Previously Believe & Chartmetric
Apple Music rolled out a new station so quietly that you may have missed it. As the title suggests, your Discovery Station plays a curated selection of songs you haven’t heard before based on your listening history.
“This feature breathes new life into songs that missed an opportunity to reach a listener the first time around. With a significant amount of songs being released on music streaming apps every day, there are so many missed opportunities for a song to reach and connect with a fan. This discovery station serves music that you have never listened to before and looks into your listening history and music library to identify songs you may like.” — Mike Warner (quoted in Lifewire)
It’s worth noting that most streaming platforms have a ‘New Music’ playlist if you are looking for curated music. Spotify has the Discover Weekly playlist, which includes songs by new and familiar artists inspired by your listening history. Pandora , Amazon Music , and other apps allow you to start a station based on an artist for an endless stream of similar music. You can say, “Play new music” via your smart speaker.
There are lots of blogs to discover music via Hype Machine, and sites like Bandcamp and Qobuz even have written album reviews so you can learn more about new music in detail.
Don’t forget that the algorithm is dependent on your listening history, so if you want your Discovery Station to get to know you better, you’ll have to listen to more of your faves!
Mine is surprisingly good, it even plays different music throughout the day so I don’t get dubstep for breakfast!
Have you checked out your Discovery Station yet? Let me know in the comments
A&R Manager at Identity Music
1yRoss Hyland
Senior Tech Lead Architect | Enterprise Architect @ AVER, LLC
1yNice.
Growth Personnel | Music Business Enterpreneur
1yThis sounds like the New Spotify DJ(AI enhanced) feature (still in BETA stage) because it possesses the exact description of this Apple's New Discovery Station and the functionalities are similar too. So this might not necessarily be Apple's Answer to Spotfiy's Discovery Playlist
Great update. Thanks for sharing!
Helping music artists and record labels grow their fanbase. Founder of Genera Studios, Forbid Media & MusicFunnels..
1ySounds like their answer to Spotify's Discover Weekly? I feel like the three reasons so many artists focus on Spotify instead of Apple Music are 1. market share, 2. no public stats, 3. less powerful algorithmic recommendations. Hoping this answers point number 3.