Apple Music Launches Its Own Karaoke Feature

Apple Music will roll out a brand-new karaoke feature, Apple Music Sing, later this month, which will be available to subscribers worldwide on iPhone, iPad, and the new Apple TV 4K. 

The new feature will allow users to adjust vocals and look at real-time lyrics. Fans can take the lead for their favourite songs, perform duets, sing backup, and more. Man, I Feel Like A Woman, anybody? The High School Musical soundtrack?

"Apple Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features on our service," Oliver Schusser, Vice President of Apple Music and Beats, said. 

"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." View the full announcement here.

Apple Music threw its support behind Brisbane artist Sycco, aka 19-year-old Sasha McLeod, via its emerging talent initiative last year.

The music platform’s local Up Next program is “geared towards identifying and showcasing rising talent across Australia and New Zealand”, and Sycco was featured across Apple Music’s Australian Up Next playlist.

Sycco has also been named cover star of Apple Music’s FIRST, a playlist “showcasing the best, freshest music from First Nations artists across Australia”. 

Other artists who previously featured on the Up Next playlist include Khalid, Amy Shark, Billie Eilish, Dean Lewis, Megan Thee Stallion, BENEE and stacks more. 

The streaming giant also unveiled its 100 Albums That Changed Music list in 2021. Local artists made their mark, with 14 Australian artists scoring a spot on the list.

Making the list is AB Original's Reclaim Australia, Kylie Minogue's Fever, Flume's Flume, Yothu Yindi's Tribal Voice, AC/DC's Back In Black, The Saints' (I'm) Stranded, The Triffids' Born Sandy Devotional, The Avalanches' Since I Left You (which was the focus on an episode of the Rewind podcast series), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads, Gurrumul's Gurrumul, Paul Kelly & The Messengers' Gossip, Tame Impala's Currents, The Presets' Apocalypso and Silverchair's Frogstomp. 

View the rest of the 100 Albums That Changed Music list here.