Apple just announced that the number of tracks in its Apple Music library has exceeded 100 million. With this, the company reviewed the 21 years since the invention of iTunes. At that time, through large-capacity iPods, people could have up to 1,000 songs in their pockets, and now users can have more than 100,000 times the songs on Apple Music.
In a press release, Apple said it has more music than any other platform, which is "more than you can listen to in your life or in a few lives":
100 million songs are a number that will continue to grow and grow exponentially, but it is not just a number, it represents something more important -- a constructive shift in music production and distribution business over the past two decades.
Apple Music debuted in 2015. As the library continues to grow, the company launched a high-quality music library last year, adding lossless and songs containing Dolby Atmos. In the last six months of 2021, the company was able to make almost all of its music library available in lossless sound, making Apple Music the home to high-fidelity audio enthusiasts.
To commemorate this achievement, Rachel Newman, global editorial director at Apple Music, talked about the meaning of this number to the company. She wrote:
As early as the 1960s, only 5,000 new albums were released each year. Today, anywhere in the world, in 167 countries and regions of Apple Music, artists of any type can create and record songs and release them globally. Every day, over 20,000 singers and composers offer new songs to Apple Music – these songs make our library always better than the day before. One hundred million songs prove a more democratic space where anyone, even a new artist working on music in the bedroom, could become the next king queen.
