Now you can say goodbye to Apple Music’s Beats 1 – just kidding, I mean the name at least. Today, Apple announced that it was reconstructing its flagship radio station from Beats 1 to Apple Music 1. It’s a reasonable move, judging firm the fact that “Beats 1” was the only place Beats branding showed up in the Apple Music service. But as always, the station has been going for over five years now, and Apple calls is one of the most-listened-to-radio stations in the world.
Apple Music is also launching a few new, very mainstream stations today. Apple Music Hits will focus on the biggest songs from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, something that implies it won’t direct all its attention to newer music. The show will be hosted in a similar fashion to Apple Music 1; hosts include Maybe Donovan, Estelle, Lowkey, Sabi, and many more. There are also artist-led shows by Backstreet Boys, Ciara, Snoop Dog, Meghan Trainor, and a lot more of them.
Apple Music Country is pretty self-explanatory. It’s still one of the biggest genres in the US, so it’s not a huge surprise to see it get its own dedicated station. Like Apple’s other two main stations, the Country will be a dedicated station. There will be weekly shows and artist-led programming the same as wit Hits and Apple Music 1.
These stations and the name change should all happen at once. And as before, anyone can tune into Apple Music 1 without an Apple Music subscription, provided you have the Apple Music app on your device. It is not clear yet whether Hits and Country will be available for free too, but the company didn’t say as much in its press conference.
This is the first of some upcoming changes for Apple Music. As part of iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur the app will have a new “Listen Now” home that replaces For You, it will autoplay songs after you finish an album or playlist and there are new search and filtering options.
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