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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.

Puro Pop PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Pop Latino Last year’s  De Adentro Pa Afuera  added new depth and range to the existing diversity present in Camilo’s catalog, which, in addition to his own tracks, includes work for several of Latin music’s biggest contemporary artists. A standout track from that personal album, “Ambulancia” alliteratively teams the Colombian singer-songwriter with Camila Cabello, the Cuban American star who rose to fame in Fifth Harmony before scoring her own solo successes. Now released as a proper single with corresponding music video, the duet demonstrates both singers’ inherent pop-wise talents as it conjures dramatic metaphors in the service of true, passionate love. This playlist is updated often, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

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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.

Pop Hits Italia PLAYLIST ∙ Apple Music Pop Italiano Packed to the brim with singalong hits, this selection brings you the best in Italian pop right now. Seasoned songwriters and burgeoning beat makers with an undeniable knack for melody and an appetite for fresh forms meld emotive refrains with dynamic grooves. Drawing on rock, electropop, reggaetón, hip-hop, and trap, they transport fans from the streets of Rome to the sunlit Caribbean.

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...

Afrobeats Hits PLAYLIST ∙ Apple Music African Born in Nigeria and Ghana, Afrobeats has become one of the most eclectic—and exportable—sounds in contemporary music, mixing with everything from rap and dancehall to R&B and house. Slippery as it is to pin down, here’s a snapshot of Afrobeats’ biggest and best tunes right now—the infectious but indefinable sound of 21st-century Africa. We regularly refresh this playlist with new music. If you like a track, add it to your library.

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.

Halloween Party PLAYLIST ∙  A killer mix of pop thrillers, creepy cuts, and campy hits.

Pure Workout PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Fitness High-octane pop, dance, and hip-hop to power your performance.

Pop Hits Italia PLAYLIST ∙ Apple Music Pop Italiano Packed to the brim with singalong hits, this selection brings you the best in Italian pop right now. Seasoned songwriters and burgeoning beat makers with an undeniable knack for melody and an appetite for fresh forms meld emotive refrains with dynamic grooves. Drawing on rock, electropop, reggaetón, hip-hop, and trap, they transport fans from the streets of Rome to the sunlit Caribbean.

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 Country PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Country Kelsea Ballerini’s long-awaited fourth album  SUBJECT TO CHANGE  is available now, and along with it comes standout track “MUSCLE MEMORY.” The breezy track finds Ballerini at her freest, with a lightness to her vocal that signals a newfound confidence from the “half of my hometown” hitmaker. Ballerini attributes some of that freedom to the unexpected downtime she suddenly found herself with during the COVID-19 pandemic, which coincided with the release of her third album,  kelsea . “I wrote my first record when I was 19 and then have been in this wonderful whirlwind since I was 20, really,” Ballerini tells Apple Music. “And I started radio tour and it hadn't really stopped until 2020. And I just had this need, in that stillness and in that space, to take inventory of my life.” This playlist tracks what’s happening from the heart of the country scene to its outer edges. Check back here early and often, and if you hear so...

A-List Pop PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Pop “This song needs to be listened to by anyone and everyone, and especially people who are sick of being privy to other people’s secrets,” Sam Smith tells Apple Music of “Unholy,” their new collaborative single with Kim Petras that headlines A-List Pop this week. Written in Jamaica “after lots of rum, it feels like one of the most exciting songs I’ve ever released,” Smith says. “It has many emotions that I’ve never expressed before in one place.” Add A-List Pop to your library to stay up on the latest and greatest pop music.

Rap Life PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Hip-Hop “They say they don’t f**k with me, but I say they can’t f**k with me,” GloRilla says at the outset of “Tomorrow,” a standout from her CMG label’s  Gangsta Art  compilation. It’s an important distinction, and one not lost on featured guest of “Tomorrow 2” Cardi B. Cardi, of course, has never been afraid to go bar for bar with an MC, nor been unwilling to show love to like-minded women trying to make a name for themselves (see HoodCelebrityy’s 2016 breakout “Island Girls”). Like GloRilla, Cardi is ready for any and all smoke on “Tomorrow 2,” rapping, “All y’all bitches sweet and I always get my lick, boo/I fight for my bitches and I’m fighting over dick too!” Listen to “Tomorrow 2” on Rap Life, the playlist at the forefront of hip-hop culture today, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

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.

Rap Life PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Hip-Hop EST Gee’s “Backstage Passes” marks his fourth collaboration with fellow Louisville native Jack Harlow, as the pair seem determined to prove their working relationship is way deeper than just an “odd couple” attention grab. In all fairness, the two don’t exactly  look  like they’d frequent the same night spots, but one listen to “Backstage Passes”—or any of the songs they’ve made together—and it’s easy to understand that they have much in common as rising rap stars, and maybe more strikingly as they claim on record to each be the MC responsible for putting Louisville on the map. The city is up right now, and most heartwarmingly, each wants to make sure the other gets the credit they deserve for that. Listen to the Pooh Beatz- and Nik Dean-produced “Backstage Passes” on Rap Life, the playlist at the forefront of hip-hop culture today, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

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.

A-List Pop PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music Pop “I wrote ‘SNAP’ when I was on an emotional rollercoaster,” Rosa Linn tells Apple Music of the song that headlines A-List Pop this week. “I was heartbroken, confused, scared. I was living in a tiny town in Armenia; it affected my mental health and I was at a total snapping point—something I think we can all relate to.” Songwriting, the rising Armenian singer-songwriter and Eurovision alum adds, is “my way of working through my inner struggles and bringing people into my inner world.” Add A-List Pop to your library to stay up on the latest and greatest pop music.

R&B Now PLAYLIST ∙  Apple Music R&B Bryson Tiller is back with new music, and the Kentucky native doesn’t disappoint with “Outside,” which samples the infamous 2005 Ying Yang Twins hit “Wait (The Whisper Song).” Tiller tells a story that’s familiar to most of us—about taking a romantic interest in someone while making sure their ex-lover doesn’t try to rekindle a relationship. Tiller stakes his claim with his new lover, singing, “If he get too close, tell that n***a, ‘Back back’/He been calling your phone, but don’t call back/Let him know it’s his fault and he need to fall back.” Listen to Bryson Tiller’s “Outside” and add R&B Now to your library to stay up to date on the latest and greatest of the genre.