Apple Music Classical today debuted a Top 100 album chart. The list features the most popular classical music albums that are available globally, combining five data sources from over 165 countries. Sources include Apple Music Classical streams, Apple Music streams, iTunes downloads, iTunes song sales, and Shazam tags.
Apple plans to update the Apple Classical Top 100 list every Monday, and it will be available on the Apple Music Classical Home tab. Each chart will include streaming activity from the previous week.
The first top album on the chart is Bach: Keyboard Concertos with Chinese pianist Tianqi Du and the Academy of St Martins in the Fields conducted by Jonathan Bloxham. The top five albums feature artists from Canada, China, Brazil, Latvia, Norway, and the UK.
The classical music streaming service, which debuted in early 2023, offers a simple interface for engaging with more than five million classical works. Users can search recordings by composer, work, conductor, or catalog number. Music can be streamed in high-quality audio of up to 192 kHz/24-bit Hi-Res Lossless. Thousands of recordings are available in Apple’s immersive spatial audio.
Apple Music Classical is a standalone music app that is available to Apple Music subscribers and has the largest classical music catalog of any streaming service. The app is free and can be downloaded from the App Store.
