This isn't just an opportunity to reflect on how far we've come, but also a moment to look forward to the work we have left to do. Looking toward the future, Newman pointed out the two areas of focus for improving ‌Apple Music‌ in the future, starting with human curation to drive recommendation algorithms. One hundred million songs is evidence of a more democratic space, where anyone, even a new artist making music out of their bedroom, can have the next big hit. Every day, over 20,000 singers and songwriters are delivering new songs to Apple Music - songs that make our catalog even better than it was the day before. Today, anywhere in the world, in 167 countries and regions on Apple Music, any artist of any description can write and record a song and release it globally. She added that the rise of ‌Apple Music‌ has helped democratize the music industry as a whole amid a massive expansion of content:īack in the 1960s, only 5,000 new albums were released each year. But it's more than just a number, representing something much more significant - the tectonic shift in the business of music making and distribution over these past two decades. One hundred million songs - it's a number that will continue to grow and exponentially multiply. Simply the biggest collection of music, in any format, ever. More music than you can listen to in a lifetime, or several lifetimes. The entire history, present, and future of music is at your fingertips or voice command. Twenty-one years on from the invention of iTunes and the debut of the original iPod, we've gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music.

Reflecting on the growth of music on Apple's platforms in a press release, ‌Apple Music‌'s global head of editorial Rachel Newman today said:

Apple today celebrated reaching the milestone of 100 million songs on Apple Music and commented upon two areas where it is working to improve the service.

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