Make The Most Out Of The YouTube Music App With These Latest Features

Navigating the expansive landscape of great music has become a job within itself. With all of the amazing music out there right now, even the most passionate fans might find it difficult to connect with the sounds that speak to them and their unique taste.

Each month, more than 2 billion people come to YouTube to listen to their favourite music.

With the YouTube Music app, they have built a dedicated music streaming experience that delivers over 100 million official songs, along with an extensive catalog of live performances, music videos, remixes, podcasts, and hard-to-find music that you often can’t get anywhere else. YouTube have taken all of that music content and created a personalized journey through sound that fits your particular music needs and preferences. We know that no two music journeys are the same, so we built this app with YOU in mind. Connecting the vast YouTube ecosystem, YouTube Premium subscribers also receive YouTube Music Premium, which allows you to consume ad-free, while taking all of your music with you, wherever you go, playing it offline or in the background.

This year, YouTube launched many new and exciting features on YouTube Music to help assist you with finding your next favourite song, personalize your own unique listening experience, and build a music community like none other. Most importantly, they want to make the music experience fun. Let’s dive in:

Discovery

YouTube Music is all about delivering the latest and greatest in new music to our users as easily as possible, constantly looking to build features that will help guide you on your journey through the vast YouTube Music Library. Whether you're hunting down the latest bops from superstars like Doja Cat or SZA or digging into the classics from your favourite legacy artists such as Johnny Cash or Radiohead, they have got you covered. It's like having a musical adventure at your fingertips. Here’s how YouTube are making discovery that much easier:

Easily find and play your favourite music.

Behind the scenes, they have been redesigning parts of the YouTube Music app to help you easily find and play your favourite music. In the coming months, a new feature will be launching on the Home tab that will help you quickly explore and listen to the songs and artists you’ve got on repeat. Simply open the YouTube Music app and right at the top of the Home tab, you’ll be greeted by your most listened to music content, making it easy for you to jump back into your current favourites.

Discover new music with a swipe.

This year, they introduced the Samples tab, a personalized feed of short form video segments to get you to your new favourite music. Each immersive clip offers a glimpse into the artist, the video, and the feel of the song. Users can simply swipe vertically to experience a new song, making music discovery fun and effortless. Find something you like? Quickly add the song to your collection, share it with friends, create your next favourite playlist, kick off a great new radio station, watch the full video, visit the album page, or even use the song to create your own Short. Swipe into your next music obsession in the Samples tab.

Personalisation

Every music fan has a unique identity. It’s that one song that connects you to a core memory from your youth like revisiting Hüsker Dü’s live performance of “Candy Apple Grey.” And let’s not forget about those guilty pleasures you listen to when nobody’s around. The music you listen to speaks to your identity and we want to provide a personalised listening journey to reflect it. That's where the magic happens. Here’s how their personalising the listening experience just for you:

Customize your listening session to be uniquely you.

YouTube Music makes it easy for you to get into a great listening session by surfacing pre-existing playlists, radios or albums via Home recommendations or Search results. This year, YouTube launched a new radio experience that flips that model on its head. Empowering users to create their own radios from the ground up, this new feature allows you to combine key music building blocks to create the perfect radio station. After picking which artists to draw inspiration from you can tune your radio to suit your mood, level of discovery or familiarity of the songs, desired mood, and even if you’re looking for popular records versus deep cuts. Control your radio experience with a few quick clicks.

Make unique playlist art with help from AI.

YouTube have began rolling out a new experimental feature for English language US users on YouTube Music that creates customized playlist art using generative AI. The guided experience allows users to effortlessly explore from a range of visual themes and options to create one-of-a-kind cover art that expresses the uniqueness of your personal playlists. Struggling to find the perfect artwork for your 90’s R&B-inspired morning commute playlist? Stay tuned for expansion to other regions and languages globally.

Community

YouTube Music’s unique combination of music videos, live performances, music premieres and short form videos, inspires real, devoted fandom. As users, you’re the heartbeat of our platform and we want to make sure that you’re able to connect, celebrate, and share the music that you love. Here’s how:

Express yourself and connect with other music fans.

Recently, YouTube introduced a new way to express yourself and connect with others through Comments in the YouTube Music app. With comments, you can make your voice heard by adding to the conversation around a new song, podcast or old favourite, while seeing what the broader community is saying by reading or reacting to their thoughts – all within the music app. These comments will mirror the same conversations happening on YouTube, allowing you to stay connected with music lovers across the YouTube ecosystem. Can’t hold back your excitement from the latest Cardi B and Megan the Stallion music video? Hop in the comments and join the conversation!

Lyrics

The only thing better than listening to your favourite songs is being able to follow along line-by-line to them.

Recently, YouTube launched timed lyrics in YouTube Music, so now you and your friends can follow the words on-screen as you listen. If you’re looking for your favourite part of the song, you can tap on a specific lyric to jump to that part of the track. So now there’s no need to be the only one at the party that can’t remember the words to “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Make YouTube Music part of your next karaoke experience!