Apple Music is about to cross a huge milestone, offering its eye-and-ear-popping 100 millionth song on the streaming service.
The music giant tells The Associated Press that internal data indicates Apple Music will reach the heady mark on Monday. Every day, 20,000 singers and songwriters release music on the service.
Apple Music says the milestone cements it as the world's largest catalog of music, more than YouTube Music's 80 million songs, Spotify's 82 million tracks and podcasts, and Amazon Music's 90 million songs. When iTunes was launched, the service had music in 200 languages and dialects, with half of the content in English. Now, 40% of Apple Music's offerings are in English and the number of languages and dialects are up to 350. The platform's top charts -- once the domain of the U.S., U.K, Canada and Australia -- are now populated by tunes from Japan, Colombia, Ghana, Nigeria and South Korea.
It also says its customers are not just listening to whatever's new; they're exploring back catalogues of artists. In 2015, when Apple Music launched, the top 1,000 songs made up 20% of the plays. Now they make up 10%. The average song's release date is from March 7, 2017, a number pulled down by listeners going back in time.
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