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  07 December 2022

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  Apple introduces Apple?Music?Sing

  Apple?Music expands its world-class lyrics experience with a new feature for fans to easily sing along to tens of millions of songs

  CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA?Apple today announced Apple?Music?Sing, an exciting new feature that allows users to sing along to their favourite songs with adjustable vocals¹ and real-time lyrics. Apple?Music?Sing offers multiple lyric views to help fans take the lead, perform duets, sing backup and more — all integrated within Apple?Music’s unparalleled lyrics experience.?Coupled with an ever-expanding catalogue that features tens of millions of the world’s most singable songs, Apple?Music?Sing makes it fun and easy for anyone to participate, however and wherever they choose.

  Apple Music Sing will be available later this month to Apple Music subscribers worldwide, and can be enjoyed on iPhone, iPad and the new Apple TV 4K. The feature is not available for Apple Music Voice Plan subscribers.
  

  “Apple?Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features on our service,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats. “We already know our users all over the world love to follow along to their favourite songs, so we wanted to evolve this offering even further to enable even more engagement around music through singing. It’s really a lot of fun, our customers are going to love it.”

  Apple?Music?Sing includes:

  • Adjustable vocals: Users now have control over a song’s vocal levels. They can sing with the original artist vocals, take the lead or mix it up, on millions of songs in the Apple?Music catalogue.

  • Real-time lyrics: Users can sing along to their favourite songs with animated lyrics that dance to the rhythm of the vocals.

  • Background vocals: Vocal lines sung simultaneously can animate independently from the main vocals to make it easier for users to follow.

  • Duet view: Multiple vocalists show on opposite sides of the screen to make duets or multi-singer tracks easy to sing along to.

  Apple?Music will also be launching a suite of more than 50 dedicated companion playlists featuring all of the epic songs, duets, choruses and anthems that have been compelling people all around the world to sing — fully optimised for the Apple?Music?Sing experience.

  Availability

  • Apple Music Sing will be available later this month for Apple Music subscribers worldwide. The feature is not available for Apple Music Voice Plan subscribers.
    

  • Apple?Music?Sing will be available on all compatible iPhone and iPad models as well as the new Apple?TV?4K.

  About Apple Apple revolutionised personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple?Watch and Apple?TV. Apple’s five software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App?Store, Apple?Music, Apple?Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000?employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth and to leaving the world better than we found it. About Apple?Music Apple loves music. Apple revolutionised the music experience with iPod and iTunes. Today, the award-winning Apple?Music celebrates musicians, songwriters, producers and fans with a catalogue of over 100?million songs, expertly curated playlists, and the best artist interviews, conversations and global premieres with Apple?Music?Radio. With original content from the most respected and beloved people in music, autoplay, time-synced lyrics, lossless audio and immersive sound powered by Spatial?Audio with Dolby Atmos, Apple?Music offers the world’s best listening experience, helping listeners discover new music and enjoy their favourites while empowering the global artist community. Apple?Music is available in over 165?countries and regions on iPhone, iPad, iPod?touch, Mac, Apple?Watch, Apple?TV, HomePod?mini, CarPlay and online at music.apple.com/nz, plus popular smart speakers, smart TVs, and Android and Windows devices. Apple Music is ad-free and never shares consumer data with third parties. More information is available at apple.com/nz/apple-music.

  1. The vocal slider adjusts vocal volume, but does not fully remove vocals.

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