{"id":338914,"date":"2017-04-21T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/20\/apple-music-up-next-feature\/"},"modified":"2017-04-21T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:45:13","slug":"apple-music-introduces-up-next-feature-to-promote-new-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-music-introduces-up-next-feature-to-promote-new-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music Introduces &#8216;Up Next&#8217; Feature to Promote New Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-music\/\">Apple Music<\/a> Twitter account, Apple today announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.co\/UpNext\">new &#8220;Up Next&#8221; feature<\/a> for Apple Music, which is designed to promote &#8220;Music&#8217;s Next Generation,&#8221; highlighting a new artists each month.<\/p>\n<p>For April, Apple is partnering with singer and rapper 6LACK for a range of projects to promote his <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/free-6lack\/id1163931472?app=itunes\">latest album<\/a>, FREE 6LACK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/04\/upnext-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-561671\"\/><br \/>The new &#8220;Up Next&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.co\/UpNext\">Apple Music section<\/a> in iTunes features a documentary that delves into 6LACK&#8217;s upbringing, the Free 6LACK album, a live performance, an interview with Zane Lowe, and several Apple Music playlists.<\/p>\n<p>Both Beats 1 DJ Zane Lowe and 6LACK will also be on the Late Late Show with James Corden on April 20, presumably to talk about the new project and 6LACK&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has done similar wide-ranging promotions for major album releases for well-known artists in the past, but its new Up Next feature gives the company a way to highlight and promote lesser-known artists in a major way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-music\/\">Apple Music<\/a> Twitter account, Apple today announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.co\/UpNext\">new &#8220;Up Next&#8221; feature<\/a> for Apple Music, which is designed to promote &#8220;Music&#8217;s Next Generation,&#8221; highlighting a new artists each month.<\/p>\n<p>For April, Apple is partnering with singer and rapper 6LACK for a range of projects to promote his <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/free-6lack\/id1163931472?app=itunes\">latest album<\/a>, FREE 6LACK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/04\/upnext-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-561671\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe new &#8220;Up Next&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.co\/UpNext\">Apple Music section<\/a> in iTunes features a documentary that delves into 6LACK&#8217;s upbringing, the Free 6LACK album, a live performance, an interview with Zane Lowe, and several Apple Music playlists.<\/p>\n<p>Both Beats 1 DJ Zane Lowe and 6LACK will also be on the Late Late Show with James Corden on April 20, presumably to talk about the new project and 6LACK&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zanelowe\">@zanelowe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6LACK\">@6LACK<\/a> will be on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latelateshow\">@latelateshow<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JKCorden\">@JKCorden<\/a> tonight! Watch on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBS\">@CBS<\/a> at 12:37AM ET\/PT. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TrhFPh1sKI\">https:\/\/t.co\/TrhFPh1sKI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UpNext?src=hash\">#UpNext<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FZLE6MBM91\">pic.twitter.com\/FZLE6MBM91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Beats 1 (@Beats1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Beats1\/status\/855093581861634048\">April 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nApple has done similar wide-ranging promotions for major album releases for well-known artists in the past, but its new Up Next feature gives the company a way to highlight and promote lesser-known artists in a major way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-music\/\">Apple Music<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/apple-music-up-next-feature.2042568\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=ax7XsQD7vwI:DBiBSjDPf4E:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=ax7XsQD7vwI:DBiBSjDPf4E:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/ax7XsQD7vwI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-338914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}