What makes For You such a compelling feature is its ability to surface content that I want to listen to at the perfect times. If Spotify's Discover Weekly is my music appetizer, For You is my main course I practically live inside this tab. Better than the feature itself, Discover Weekly has exposed thousands of new artists to millions of new people, including me.Īpple's own crown jewel is its For You playlists, which I have been obsessed with ever since the service launched last year. It's a qualified success, and something that Apple is mimicking in some form with its upcoming iOS 10 overhaul. According to the company, over 40 million listeners subscribe to their personalized Discover Weekly playlists every week, and over half come back every week. And then there is Discover Weekly, the service's crown jewel. What Spotify lacks in live music it makes up for with its deep bench of playlists. Spotify does not have live DJs, but it does boast a far more comprehensive set of automatically-generated playlists. Unfortunately, in its current incarnation, these playlists are hidden and difficult to recall unless you explicitly subscribe to them, an issue that will likely be resolved with Apple Music's big overhaul in iOS 10. Then they share the playlists! These are nuggets of gold for all subscribers, and something that Spotify just can't compete with.
Not only are the personalities like Ebro Darden and Julie Adenuga some of the most engaging and knowledgeable in the music business, but Apple Music invites well-known musicians - Elton John (!!), Josh Homme, Pharrell Williams - to host their own shows. Where Apple Music excels is in providing live, DJed sets via Beats 1. While I tend to prefer Spotify's mood-based playlists and randomly-generated radio stations, powered by The Echo Nest's fantastic algorithms, Apple also has a decent, though much smaller, selection of radio stations.
Broadly, both Apple Music and Spotify have some form of a la carte, radio, and playlist playback, and different takes on social integration.
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