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Today’s Hits Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Hits Today’s Hits is home to the biggest songs in pop, hip-hop, R&B, and more. At the top of this week’s playlist is Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Luther Vandross-sampling hit “luther.” Over a sample of Vandross and Cheryl Lynn’s 1982 hit “If This World Were Mine,” the Compton rapper and SZA reflect on their desires to uplift their partners despite the trials and tribulations of the world. Check back often, as our editors update this playlist regularly—and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Today’s Hits PLAYLIST ∙ Apple Music Hits Today’s Hits is home to the biggest songs in pop, hip-hop, R&B, and more. This week’s headline track is Miguel’s “Sure Thing,” the 2010 single that’s been enjoying a resurgence of late thanks to TikTok. Check back often, as our editors update this playlist regularly—and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Today’s Hits PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Hits “I have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser,” Taylor Swift sings at the start of “Anti-Hero,” a highlight from her just-released 10th LP,  Midnights . The headliner on Today’s Hits this week, it feels like an instant classic, Swift uncorking unforgettable line after unforgettable image (behold: “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby and I’m a monster on a hill”) over wobbly synths and plush melody, before finally intoning, “It’s me/Hi/I’m the problem, it’s me.” Add Today’s Hits to your library to stay up on the biggest songs in pop, hip-hop, R&B, and more.

Hits in Spatial Audio PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Hits Ever wish you could get that feeling of hearing your favorite song for the first time all over again? No problem. Thanks to Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos, now on Apple Music, you can be fully immersed in the songs you love, as if you’ve stepped inside of them. The vocals you harmonize with, the beats you move to: All of it can feel real enough to touch, like you’re at the center of it all. It’s a three-dimensional listening experience where sound comes from around and above you. Handmade by our editors, this playlist showcases some of music’s biggest and brightest songs as you’ve never heard them before. There’s no turning back from here. All Apple Music subscribers using the latest version of Apple Music on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV can listen to thousands of Dolby Atmos Music tracks using any headphones. When listening with compatible* Apple or Beats headphones, Dolby Atmos Music will play back automatically when available...

Today’s Hits PLAYLIST ∙ Apple Music Hits Here are the tracks on everyone's mind and in everyone's ears. From ballads to bops, pop to hip-hop to R&B and more, these are the biggest hits anywhere and everywhere—an ever-changing snapshot of now. This week Ed Sheeran’s “Celestial” opens up in immersive Spatial Audio. Our editors are constantly searching for new music and updating this mix—so if you hear a song you like, add it to your library.

Today’s Hits PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Hits Leading Today’s Hits this week, Lewis Capaldi asks an ex to “Forget Me”. A surprise departure from the emotive ballads that lit up his breakthrough run, the midtempo break-up song—produced by TMS, Chris Bishop and Capaldi—announces a new era for the Scot singer-songwriter. Capaldi’s first single since 2019’s “Before You Go” is more than worth the wait—with the promise of more unpredictable anthems to come. Elsewhere, get into new music from Eliza Rose, KSI and Harry Styles, then add Today’s Hits to your library to stay up on the biggest songs in pop, hip-hop, R&B and more.  

Today’s Hits PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Hits “I think the best thing that happened to the album was when we moved into the studio,” Harry Styles tells Apple Music of recording his third LP,  Harry’s House . “First day, we were setting up and it was just me and Tom [Hull, aka Kid Harpoon]. We got there early and we wrote ‘Late Night Talking.’ We then got to make the rest of the album being like, ‘We have that.’” The headliner on Today’s Hits this week, it’s a love song through and through—one Styles debuted at his first Coachella show this year. “I’ve never been a fan of change,” he sings. “But I’d follow you to any place, if it’s Hollywood or Bishopsgate.” Add Today’s Hits to your library to stay up on the biggest songs in pop, hip-hop, R&B, and more.

Today’s Hits PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Hits Upon the release of his new LP  Gemini Rights , Steve Lacy wrote an exclusive statement for Apple Music. “ Gemini Rights  is me getting closer to what makes me a part of all things, and that is: feelings,” he wrote of the album. “Feelings seem like the only real things sometimes.” On “Bad Habit”—which headlines Today’s Hits this week—the LA singer-songwriter meditates on a missed opportunity. “I write about my anger, sadness, longing, confusion, happiness, horniness, anger, happiness, confusion, fear, etc., all out of love and all laughable, too. The biggest lesson I learned at the end of this album process was how small we make love. I want to love unconditionally now. I will make love bigger, not smaller. To me,  Gemini Rights  is a step in the right direction.” Add Today’s Hits to your library to stay up on the biggest songs in pop, hip-hop, R&B, and more.

Today’s Hits PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Hits Elton John and Britney Spears join forces on “Hold Me Closer,” a new single that reimagines and relocates the former’s 1971 classic “Tiny Dancer” to the dance floor. Produced by Andrew Watt (Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Eddie Vedder), it’s the headline track on Today’s Hits this week. Add Today’s Hits to your library to stay up on the biggest songs in pop, hip-hop, R&B, and more.