Apple Music
Apple Music Classical
On September 5, 2023, Apple acquired the classical music label BIS Records.
Feature films
<table><thead><tr><th>Film</th><th>U.S. release date</th><th>Directors(s)</th><th>Screenwriter(s)</th><th>Producer(s)</th><th>Studio(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>The 1989 World Tour Live</td><td>December 20, 2015</td><td>Jonas Åkerlund</td><td>Violaine Etienne</td><td>Scott Horan, Taylor Swift</td><td>Apple Music, Dirty Hit</td></tr><tr><td>Beats 1 Presents: The 1975</td><td>February 25, 2016</td><td>Matty Healy, Zane Lowe</td><td>Apple Music, Beats 1, Dirty Hit</td></tr><tr><td>Please Forgive Me</td><td>September 26, 2016</td><td>Anthony Mandler</td><td>Anthony Mandler, Larry Jackson</td><td>Larry Jackson, Kim Bradshaw</td><td>Apple Music, Dirty Hit</td></tr><tr><td>Skepta: Live from London</td><td>December 3, 2016</td><td>Joseph Adenuga</td><td>Apple Music, Boy Better Know</td></tr><tr><td>808</td><td>December 9, 2016</td><td>Alexander Dunn</td><td>Alexander Dunn, Luke Bainbridge</td><td>Alexander Dunn, Arthur Baker, Craig Kallman, Alex Noyer</td><td>Apple Music, Atlantic Films, You Know Films</td></tr><tr><td>Skepta: Greatness Only</td><td>December 19, 2016</td><td>Matt Walker, Tom Knight</td><td>Joseph Adenuga</td><td>Joseph Adenuga, Julie Adenuga</td><td>Apple Music, Boy Better Know</td></tr><tr><td>Process</td><td>March 31, 2017</td><td>Kahlil Joseph</td><td>Onye Anyanwu, Rik Green</td><td>Apple Music, Pulse Films, Young Turks</td></tr><tr><td>Harry Styles: Behind the Album</td><td>May 15, 2017</td><td>Harry Styles, Paul Dugdale</td><td>Apple Music, Erskine Records</td></tr><tr><td>Ti Amo Speciale</td><td>June 7, 2017</td><td>Warren Fu</td><td>Jona Ward, Warren Fu</td><td>Christian Mazzalai, Deck d'Arcy, Laurent Brancowitz, Thomas Mars</td><td>Apple Music, Partizan Entertainment</td></tr><tr><td>Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story</td><td>June 25, 2017</td><td>Daniel Kaufman</td><td>Andre Harrell, Heather Parry, Sean Combs</td><td>Apple Music, Live Nation Productions</td></tr><tr><td>HAIM: Behind the Album</td><td>July 14, 2017</td><td>Paul Dugdale</td><td>Apple Music, Pulse Films</td></tr><tr><td>Kygo: Stole the Show</td><td>July 26, 2017</td><td>Matt Mitchener</td><td>Devin Chanda, Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll</td><td>Apple Music, Ultra Enterprises</td></tr><tr><td>Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives</td><td>October 3, 2017</td><td>Chris Perkel</td><td>Blake Everhart, David Diliberto, David Schulhof, Deborah Zipser, Mary Lisio, Michael Bernstein, Ridley Scott, Samantha Kerzner, Susan Ricketts</td><td>Apple Music, IM Global, Scott Free Productions</td></tr></tbody></table>
Reception
Apple Music received mixed reviews at launch. Among the criticism, reviewers wrote that the user interface was "not intuitive", and an "embarrassing and confusing mess". They also wrote about battery life problems. However, the service was praised for its smart functions. Christina Warren of Mashable noted the emphasis on human curation in Apple Music, pointing out the various human-curated radio stations and the accuracy of the curated playlists recommended to users in the "For Me" section. The author concluded saying "[The] For Me section alone has made me excited about music for the first time in a long time." Sam Machkovech of Ars Technica wrote that Apple's emphasis on unsigned artist participation in the Connect feature could be an effort to restore the company's former reputation as a "tastemaker" in the mid-2000s.
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