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<\/picture>\nEdgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
If you are a subscriber to Apple Music, then you may have noticed something during browsing for music to play. Some tracks have a single star next to them. If you mouse over it, that star changes to a heart icon in case you want to \u201clove\u201d the track. But what does the star mean on Apple Music, and why is it there?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
QUICK ANSWER<\/strong><\/p>\n On Apple Music, the single star next to a song means that the track is extremely popular with many Apple Music subscribers. Apple, therefore, thinks you would like it too, and so the star is a recommendation of sorts to check out the song.<\/p>\n JUMP TO KEY SECTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you are an Apple Music subscriber or use the Music or iTunes app to listen to your downloaded music, you have a star system for each song. You can rank each song from one star to five stars, depending on how much you liked the song. Apple Music then sends this data to its algorithms which calculate what to recommend to you next based on your listening history and music tastes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n All of the star rating data is then aggregated, and Apple works out the most popular tracks ever across a wide spectrum of albums and genres. If you look at the top-selling albums of all time in your favorite genre or singer, you\u2019re bound to find at least one star next to a song.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Two notable examples include Another Brick in the Wall<\/strong> from Pink Floyd\u2019s album The Wall<\/em> and the iconic track Bohemian Rhapsody<\/strong> by Queen<\/p>\n<\/div>\nWhat does the star mean on Apple Music?<\/h2>\n