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Skip Da 8 Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Kur

R&B Hits

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R&B Hits Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music R&B Like its stylistic cousin hip-hop, R&B has some major overlap with modern pop—at times, the charts are virtually indistinguishable from one another. Put another way, the biggest R&B songs are often the biggest songs in any genre, period. Whether you call it crossover R&B, pop&B, or something else entirely, this is where you’ll find its hugest new chart smashes, updated every week. We always keep this playlist refreshed with the latest tunes. If you like something, add it to your library.

Bedtime Beats

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Bedtime Beats Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Sleep The moon’s up, the hour’s late, the world’s asleep. Look, it’s been a long day—no need to belabor the point. Here’s a mix of low-key instrumental hip-hop for unwinding and falling asleep. Our editors update selections regularly, so if you find something you like—in other words, if there’s something you only kinda sorta remember as you drift off—add it to your library. But do yourself a favor: Wait until morning.

Worship Today

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Worship Today Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Christian Christian songwriters and worship leaders represent a diverse range of musical styles, but they’re all unified in their faith. This playlist is a testament to their creativity—a selection of essential anthems being performed around the world right now, both fresh expressions of adoration and time-honored favorites. Our editors regularly update this collection with new music. If you like a song, add it to your library.

Zach Bryan Essentials

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Zach Bryan Essentials Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Country Unstinting honesty and stripped-down simplicity are at the core of Oklahoma troubadour Zach Bryan’s country-folk-inflected approach. When you cut your debut album (2019’s  DeAnn ) while on leave from the Navy, you don’t have time to mess around. He’s a storyteller with a poetic flair, and on unadorned acoustic tracks like “Oklahoma City” and the hushed, gentle “Rest, Rose,” you can see the local color and feel Bryan’s plaintive voice vibrating the air. When he brings a few friends in on “Crooked Teeth,” the stomping-and-clapping vibe gives all the earthy intimacy of a campfire sing-along.

Taylor Swift Essentials

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Taylor Swift Essentials Playlist ∙ 2024 Apple Music Pop The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s  Red . But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville for her career clearly has ambition to burn. And the thrill of following Swift’s rise has been watching her execute it flawlessly, largely because her melodic intelligence is equal to that ambition. Her early, youthful love songs heralded 2010's newly self-possessed  Speak Now —which showed off her scathing wit—and evolved into knowing, ironclad pop fare that held its own against boisterous Max Martin production on  1989 , her fifth album, titled after her birth year. Throughout, her songwriting has blurred the lines between the public and private, burying enough real-life clues (about, say, scarves and Starbucks) to make clear that only Swif...

Ocean Sounds

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Ocean Sounds Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Sleep There's no rhythm more essential, no “music” more relaxing, than the rolling of ocean waves. These enveloping shoreline recordings make a gentle soundtrack for moments of deep contemplation, deeper sleep, and blissful disconnection. Our editors regularly update this playlist. If you like a track, add it to your library.

R&B Throwback

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R&B Throwback Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music R&B The ’90s was a revolutionary time in R&B: Not only had the mature, quiet-storm-oriented sound evolved to its most sophisticated state, you started to really hear the influence of hip-hop—a shift that changed not only R&B, but the sound of modern pop in general. From neo-soul to new jack swing, the classic-sounding to the more cutting-edge, these are the tracks that shaped R&B in the ’90s and early 2000s. Our editors update picks regularly, so if you hear something you like, take a minute and add it to your library.

Me and Bae

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Me and Bae Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music R&B Here's one for the lovers. New-school R&B mingles with hip-hop's more sensitive side on this set tailored to collapse the distance between you and that somebody. We regularly update these selections, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library. Then slide over and get cozy.

Lullaby Essentials

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Lullaby Essentials Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Kids As anyone who's tried to soothe a restless soul to sleep knows, finding the perfect lullaby can be an elusive quest. A balance is needed between hypnotic repetition and dreamy inspiration, between murmured lyrics and reassuring melodies, offset by a beautifully soft instrumental backdrop. The tracks here range from cinematic orchestrations to hushed nursery rhymes, classical reveries to classic folk ditties, pop singers' delicate originals to acoustic versions of familiar ballads. What they have in common is an essential sweetness and the magical ability to be played over and over without getting old.

'80s Hits Essentials

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'80s Hits Essentials Playlist ∙ 2024 Apple Music ’80s An irresistible synth melody. A snare drum loaded with reverb. A guitar line that’s tight and powerful. If the song you’re listening to has at least one of these things, it may be from the 1980s, the decade when disco waned and hip-hop emerged, Madonna blew up in the U.S., the hitmaking team of Stock Aitken Waterman pumped out smash singles for Rick Astley and Dead or Alive, and Michael Jackson broke sales and chart records around the world. Of course, thanks to MTV, this was also a decade when the biggest stars weren't just heard but also seen, as the music video gave artists a new medium to explore. Peter Gabriel mastered the form with psychedelic mini-masterpieces to complement his vibrant art-pop, while Prince, in the midst of reinventing rock ’n’ roll, turned out two feature-length film masterpieces with classic soundtracks to match.

Pure Meditation

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Pure Meditation Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Wellbeing Some moments require a soundtrack that lies lightly in the background without calling attention to itself. These calming tracks encompass gentle ambient music, acoustic new age, Tibetan prayer bowls, and the occasional sounds of ocean waves and rainfall—a mix specifically designed to help you clear your mind. We regularly update this playlist. If you like a piece, add it to your library.

’90s R&B Essentials

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’90s R&B Essentials Playlist ∙ 2024 Apple Music ’90s A hand-picked mix of hits and album cuts by the stars that shaped '90s R&B. Our editors regularly update this playlist—if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

¡Dale Play!

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¡Dale Play! Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Latin ¡Dale Play! remains the place to hear the biggest Latin tracks from your favorite Spanish-language artists from around the world. Headlining the playlist this week are Blessd and Ovy On the Drums with “AMISTAD.” The two Colombian stars join formidable forces for a slo-mo reggaetón single with tropical touches. This playlist is updated often, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Spa

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Spa Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Wellbeing “Hey Siri, play the Spa playlist.”

Ambient Sleep

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Ambient Sleep Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Sleep Asked about the inspiration behind his eight-and-a-half-hour 2015 album Sleep, the composer and ambient musician Max Richter said it was pretty simple: Sleep is really important, and he really likes doing it. In that spirit, here’s a mix of contemporary and classic ambient music we feel is perfectly calibrated to smooth the passage between the stresses and noise of waking life and the quiet mystery of dreams. Tap in. Lie down. Tune out. Our editors switch up selections regularly here, so if you hear something you like—or, more pointedly, if you don’t hear it—then add it to your library.

Rap Life

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Rap Life Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Hip-Hop Headlining Rap Life, the playlist at the forefront of hip-hop culture today, is “Money on Money,” a new single from two of Atlanta’s foremost stylistic innovators, Young Thug and Future. It’s easy to have lost count of all the times these two have given us club-crushing classics over the years, which doesn’t mean we’re not all the more grateful for yet another. Listen to “Money on Money” on Rap Life now, and check back often, as our editors update this playlist regularly. If you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Baby Sleep

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Baby Sleep Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Kids Time to slow things down—you’ve earned it.

Disney Hits

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Disney Hits Playlist ∙ 2025 Disney All your favorite Disney songs past and present.

Morgan Wallen Essentials

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Morgan Wallen Essentials Playlist ∙ 2025 Apple Music Country Born in 1993 in Sneedville, Tennessee, Morgan Wallen grew up singing harmonies with his sisters in the church where their father preached. By 2014, he’d managed to get onto and eliminated from  The Voice , but not before showing an innate versatility and relaxed style. His breakthrough came with 2017’s “Up Down,” a Southern-rock spring break anthem that radiated frosty-can cool with help from Florida Georgia Line. But his 2018 debut,  If I Know Me , proved Wallen could ride solo on cleverly penned everyman hits like “Whiskey Glasses,” a honky-tonk heartbreak sing-along about getting over your blues with something a little stronger than beer goggles. As easy as his country goes down, Wallen stays committed to exploring interesting new directions. He converted “Cover Me Up,” the signature song of anti-bro Jason Isbell, into a hymn of support for returning veterans. And in 2020, he not only held down “Heartless,” Diplo’...