Apple Music today released new Shazam-powered playlists that track what's played most often on terrestrial radio stations. Radio Spins charts are also available on the Shazam website.
Using its music recognition technology, Shazam now records what songs are being played on tens of thousands of radio stations around the world to help users gain more information about what music is popular in world.
Shazam tracks more than a million hours of music played on the radio every day to compile this data set.
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Through Apple Music, users can now find a new global chart of the top 200 radio stations, updated daily. There are also radio charts for selecting individual genres. You can get more information through Shazam.com, such as weekly charts.
Apple is also launching a new Music Partner Program, which is described as a premium set of tools to help identify outstanding talent and new trends in music. business. Record labels and distributors may want to join the program to learn how the artists they manage are faring among the general public, as well as gather various metrics and analytics about the industry as a whole.
The program includes access to dashboards such as Chart Explorer, which is a music chart database covering 270 countries and 60 genres. Newly announced Shazam Radio Spins data is also available through the program, as well as real-time listener counts. You can also get information about using Apple Music as part of the campaign and get priority support from the Apple Music team.
Data is published through online dashboards and special APIs that partners can integrate with. Access to the Music Partner Program is currently limited to a select group of US record labels and distributors who distribute music through Apple Music.
