Apple Music was launched in 2015 as a rival to Spotify and another music streaming platform. Now Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ hits 1 billion views and it must be the first song to reach the mark on the platform. This milestone is important, but it also shows that Apple is way behind Spotify in terms of music playback.

Apple Music is trying to increase its popularity and recently introduced the second season of Apple Music Live with an exclusive show by Ed Sheeran. The event took place on May 10 when the singer presented songs from his new album Subtract(-). In a press release, Apple commented: “Sheeran is one of the most popular artists on Apple Music with over 9.5 billion streams. [no total]. Your hit of 2017.Shape of You is the most played song on the platform with 930 million streams worldwide.“.

Not surprisingly, Apple invested in a presentation with the singer, seeking to attract the attention of users. But at the same time, it shows a stark difference between Apple Music and Spotify. By comparison, the song ‘Miley Cyrus’ Flowers hit the 1 billion stream mark in just 4 months on Spotify.. The results show the differences between the two platforms.

Apple Music is far behind Spotify

Ironically, Ed Sheeran is also a very popular singer-songwriter on Spotify. As such, it also performs well on the competing Apple Music platform. For example, the song “Shape of You” is the second most played song on Spotify with over 3 billion streams.

“Blinding Lights” by The Weekend is #1 on the platform with 3,572,000,000 streams (estimated number). In fact, while Apple Music is approaching the 1 billion mark with its first song, over 100 songs have already crossed that mark on Spotify. In any case, the results of Ed Sheeran on both platforms should be considered positive and testify to the popularity of the British singer.

Pixel Fold does not fully open when the user opens the smartphone
Google’s first foldable phone opens 176º naturally and needs to be forced to rotate 180º.

Source: BGR

…..