{"id":2510859,"date":"2026-07-21T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2510859"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:43:21","slug":"apple-music-to-get-more-social-with-new-friends-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/apple-music-to-get-more-social-with-new-friends-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music to get more social with new \u2018Friends\u2019 playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-274015\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple\u2019s new iOS 27 software is on the way this autumn, including some improvements for Apple Music. 9 to 5 Mac has been\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/07\/20\/apple-music-in-ios-27-five-new-features-coming-to-your-iphone\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">running through some of the new additions<\/a>.\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most noteworthy is a new algorithmic playlist called \u2018Friends\u2019 which will update every Thursday.\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s described as \u201cthe best of what your friends are listening to\u201d \u2013\u00a0thus adding another social element to Apple Music (as long as people\u2019s friends are also using the streaming service, of course.)\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article also spotlights a new design for artists\u2019 profile pages on Apple Music; improved transitions for the service\u2019s AutoMix feature; extra-large homescreen widgets and the ability to run in landscape mode.\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, Apple said that\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/01\/13\/eddy-cue-trumpets-best-year-ever-for-apple-music-in-2025\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2025 was its music service\u2019s \u201cbest year ever\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in terms of both listenership and new subscribers. Apple Music also\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/01\/30\/apple-music-broke-its-revenues-record-in-final-quarter-of-2025\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broke its quarterly revenues record<\/a>\u00a0in the final quarter of that year (Apple\u2019s fiscal Q1).\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple didn\u2019t release specific stats for any of that, but Midia Research\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/06\/17\/music-business-ended-2025-with-921-6m-paid-streaming-subscribers\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently estimated<\/a>\u00a0that Apple Music ended 2025 with a 12.6% share of global music subscribers \u2013\u00a0around 116.1 million people, narrowly ahead of YouTube Music\u2019s 12.4% share, but behind Tencent Music (13.8%) and Spotify (31.4%).\n\n\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section><\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s new iOS 27 software is on the way this autumn, including some improvements for Apple Music. 9 to 5 Mac has been\u00a0running through some of the new additions. 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