There’s something strangely satisfying about seeing your year in music laid out in numbers. The songs you played on repeat during a long commute. The artist you discovered in February and couldn’t stop listening to. The album that carried you through a rough month. Apple Music Replay takes all of that and turns it into a story you didn’t even know you were writing.
Apple Music Replay 2026 is already live, and you don’t have to wait until December to see your listening habits. That’s the beauty of it. Instead of a once-a-year surprise, Replay updates throughout the year, building your personal soundtrack in real time.
What Apple Music Replay Shows You
Apple Music Replay goes beyond a simple playlist. It tracks your most played songs, albums, and artists across the year and ranks them based on actual listening time. You can see:
- Your top songs
- Your top artists
- Your most played albums
- Total listening minutes
- Milestones reached during the year
It’s data, yes. But it also feels personal. You might notice that one artist dominated your winter months. Or that a single song quietly climbed into your top five without you even realizing it.
Replay also creates a dynamic playlist with your top 100 songs of the year. As your listening evolves, the playlist updates automatically.
How to Access Apple Music Replay
You won’t find Apple Music Replay as a regular tab inside the app right away. It lives on a dedicated webpage connected to your account.
Open Apple Music
Tap your profile > Scroll down to Replay (if available in your region)
Or visit directly:
Sign in with your Apple ID, and your personalized Replay page will load. From there, you can add your Replay playlist directly to your Apple Music library.
Adding Replay to Your Library
Once inside the Replay page:
Tap Add to Library
Your Replay playlist will appear like any other playlist in Apple Music. It will continue updating as your listening changes during the year.
It’s a living playlist, not a frozen snapshot. There’s no flashy animation screaming at you. No social comparison pressure. No dramatic rankings that feel exaggerated. Apple Music Replay presents your data in a clean, focused way. It feels like looking at a journal, not a scoreboard.
Some people like to screenshot their stats and share them. Others keep it private. It’s entirely up to you.
Replay also reminds you how diverse — or predictable — your listening habits really are. Maybe you thought you were exploring new genres. Then you see the numbers and realize you’ve played the same indie band 312 times.
And that’s okay.
There’s also something deeply revealing about the numbers Apple Music Replay collects. You may discover that you listen most late at night, or that your Sunday mornings have a completely different sound from your weekday routines. Maybe you leaned into instrumental playlists during focused work sessions, or perhaps one nostalgic track resurfaced dozens of times without you noticing. Replay doesn’t judge taste or genre. It simply mirrors behavior. And sometimes, that mirror says more about your year than any calendar ever could.
A Soundtrack That Evolves All Year
What makes Apple Music Replay unique is that it updates continuously. If you suddenly dive into a new artist in June and listen obsessively for weeks, you’ll see the shift reflected in your rankings.
It’s not about one viral moment. It’s about patterns. Habits. Comfort songs. Phases. You might revisit your Replay page in July and realize your year sounds completely different from how it started.
Apple Music Replay quietly tracks your year in music while you just live it.
And when you finally scroll through it, you’ll probably smile at least once — remembering where you were when that one song wouldn’t leave your headphones.
