Apple Music launches Top 25 City Charts in Sydney, Melbourne and more

The tastes of music fans in Australia’s big three cities are captured and ranked by new charts published from today by Apple Music.

The streaming music giant launches its City Charts, a suit of Top 25 songs surveys which spotlight the music making an impact at a city level and are updated each day.

Currently, more than 100 cities are featured with bespoke charts, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and over the ditch in Auckland.

Right now, Justin Bieber’s ‘Peaches’ is the most popular song in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, while a slightly different tune is being played in Brisbane, where Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ is the leader. 

Apple Music’s Top 25 Sydney City Chart

Apple’s charts correlate closely with ARIA’s latest singles chart, which ranks ‘Montero’ and ‘Peaches’ at Nos 1 and 2, respectively. 

Apple Music’s new charts collate plays and “additional signs of local popularity,” which are said to take into account local listening patterns, what music subscribers have on repeat in these cities, and more.

Chart anoraks can ask Siri to play a local city chart — for Sydney, just say “Hey Siri, play the Top 25 Sydney” — and the tallies can be added to libraries and shared.

Apple Music’s Top 25 Melbourne City Chart

City Charts appear in Apple Music’s Charts page, which includes its Daily Top 100: Global and for 116 countries; album, top songs and music video charts in various genres; plus iTunes, Shazam Discovery Top 50, and Shazam’s Top 200s.

Alongside the launch, Apple Music pushes out a string of new features for its subscribers, which are meant to enrich the music listening experience.

Among the new additions, users can now filter their searches by record labels, and share lyrics using Messages, Facebook, and Instagram Stories.

Apple Music’s Top 25 Brisbane City Chart

Last month, Apple Music quietly launched “Behind the Songs,” a new virtual shout out to songwriters, producers and session musicians and their often unrecognised work, with APRA Award-winning songwriter Sarah Aarons and New Zealand hitmaker Joel Little among the initial homegrown champions celebrated with “Local Songbook” playlists.

Check out Apple Music’s City Charts here.

This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.