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In 2015 Apple’s users found out a new icon on their display figuring the well known “note” representing Apple Music service. Unlike Spotify Apple’s customers didn’t have to comb Apple Store to get the client installed as Apple Music was automatically installed during the upgrade. For those who like playing music on Apple Watch the days of fumbling around for your mobile are really far, you can now listen to music on your Apple Watch because it comes with onboard storage ready for you to fill with music.
Spotify is one of the largest music streaming services in the world and this year there was some rumours about a Spotify app to listen to music on your Apple Watch. Waiting for other news developer Andrew Chang created Snowy, an app for Apple Watch users that seems to have some great features including Siri support, swipe-based playback controls, and watch face complications. Thanks to Snowy you can listen your favorite Spotify music on your Apple Watc, just at your wrist!
What is Apple Music’s Up Next?
One of the most popular way to listen to music is streaming and Apple Music is the ideal service for those who wear an Apple Watch. Thanks to Apple Music you have access to tens of millions of songs and through Siri you have just to ask her to play your favorite songs 1994 and she will do that. Once you’ve started playing a playlist on your Apple Watch, you can swipe up to reveal the next lyrics and in the library you will find all your music that you have imported from your desktop or from your iPhone. And finally, Search is where you, well, search for any music you want.
Up Next is an application dedicated to the emerging artists who will become famous around the world in the coming years. But Up Next is something more than that as Apple explains:
“a multimedia program series featuring musical artists distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media.”
Apple focuses its attention on musicians to create a one-to-millions social network for artists to share bits of music, photos and videos with their fans.
What is Spotify’s Rise?
Rise is an emerging artist program that leverages the platform’s promotional resources for a hand-picked roster of up-and-coming musicians. Its aim is to support a total of 16 up-and-coming artists every calendar year. It’s similar to Apple Music’s Up Next that shows an artist on the rise every month including video content about the artist’s personal journey, live performances, and interviews. The Up Next page also includes the artist’s featured songs and albums, as well as playlists related to their work.
For now the RISE roster contains predominantly indie and unsigned artists such as German pop dynamo Kim Petras, an 18-year-old Ohio-born rapper Trippie Redd and country singer Russel Dickerson. Spotify’ support to new artists has not the aim to own copyrights on them and Spotify will not take cuts of RISE artists’ touring and merchandise. It’s a service supporting new music for new artists to offer to its audience a wide range of different singers.
Rise VS Up Next: what is the best?
If you have an Apple Watch and you want to listen to music on it the best is to choose Up Next. Apple Music is known for its exclusive releases and its perfect integration with your Apple Watch and Apple’s streaming services have known a significant growth in listenership since its inception.
You can easily put music on your Apple Watch by syncing it from your iPhone moreover you have access to the iTunes library where any music you have got will appear in your library. Spotify owns a similar service but you can’t access your local music via broad searches. In addition Apple Watch 3 has put Apple Music on your wrist without using your mobile: a great reason to choose it!
