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TheAbsolution · Jun 30, 2015

Apple said:
Beats 1 is a place for progressive radio programming. Alongside new music programs from our anchor DJs, weve invited some of the biggest artists in the world to make brilliant radio shows from exclusive weekly DJ mixes to interviews with iconic musicians about albums that changed their lives. Beats 1 plays everything from old-school hip-hop to futuristic pop, and its all handpicked by people who live and breathe music.

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Website
http://applemusic.tumblr.com/beats1

How do I access it?
It's available in the Apple Music app on iPhones and later in the fall on Android. It is also available via iTunes on the desktop when the update comes out.

What is this thread for?
This community thread is to discuss the music and interviews that are currently playing on Beats 1.

Huge thanks to HUELEN10 for the banner.

HUELEN10 · Jun 30, 2015

Let's do it to it! I can't wait for the London show. The fact that Pharrell's Freedom was played twice the way it was was magical.

PS: Don't forget about the Apple MUSIC thread!

Mononoke · Jun 30, 2015

Biggest surprise out of Apple's music service. This thing is a killer app. Didn't even know about it launching today, and it's already what I'm using the most. You can't beat live radio w/ human curation. Something radio has sorely needed for a long time. Feels great to get back to that again.

My nickname: @Mononoke

Hatchtag · Jun 30, 2015

St Vincent being on tonight might actually make me try this.

infiniteloop · Jun 30, 2015

Like it a lot, but the add to library thing doesn't always work.

nickname is @infiniteloop.

FortuneFaded · Jun 30, 2015

I need my Jaden Smith fix.

Whitelines · Jun 30, 2015

Really lovin this Beats1 radio! Nice OT

Mononoke · Jun 30, 2015

FortuneFaded said:
I need my Jaden Smith fix.

lol I just saw that on the list.

Ridiculous. I'm interested to hear Homme's list.

EDIT: Do people even like this Pharrell song? Been played 3 times now. This will be a BIG marketing tool for artists. No doubt. Then again, I guess that has been the case with radio in general. At least this cuts out a lot of the negative aspects of radio.

Hoo-doo · Jun 30, 2015

What was the Stromae song that just played?

dc89 · Jun 30, 2015

I listened to it all kick off a little while ago! It truly felt like something special was starting.

infiniteloop · Jun 30, 2015

Freedom again 😒

cjp · Jun 30, 2015

Zane is smashing it. It's bringing me back to when I saw him live at The Warehouse Project.

Good times.

sometimes i game · Jun 30, 2015

FREEEDOOMMMM

Keyser Soze · Jun 30, 2015

Hoo-doo said:
What was the Stromae song that just played?

oti · Jun 30, 2015

Hoo-doo said:
What was the Stromae song that just played?

You should buy his album right now.

HUELEN10 · Jun 30, 2015

Mononoke said:
Do people even like this Pharrell song?

I like the beat of it a lot. Lyrics are growing on me too.

Nexus Zero · Jun 30, 2015

If anyone finds a rip of the London show let me know, disappointed I'm missing it

Hoo-doo · Jun 30, 2015

Yo this Em song is fucking trash.

Whitelines · Jun 30, 2015

Hoo-doo said:
Yo this Em song is fucking trash.

What??? It's Phenomenal bro!

Xater · Jun 30, 2015

Hoo-doo said:
Yo this Em song is fucking trash.

I agree.

jax · Jun 30, 2015

I love how eminem has autotune and a flow that can't catch up with the beat

jts · Jun 30, 2015

oti xero said:
You should buy his album right now.

What do you mean, "buy"? You mean "Siri add Stromae's album to my music"?

jax · Jun 30, 2015

Didn't like that ASAP song either

jts · Jun 30, 2015

Hope this radio ends up spawning some playlists and whatnot. Can't keep listening 24/7 lol. But so far so good.

Kinsella · Jun 30, 2015

It's censored? That kills any chance it had.

infiniteloop · Jun 30, 2015

Kinsella said:
It's censored? That kills any chance it had.

lol ok dude.

oti · Jun 30, 2015

This feels like an E3 press conference thread with live reactions. I like it.

And I don't even own an Apple device haha

Xater · Jun 30, 2015

jts said:
Hope this radio ends up spawning some playlists and whatnot. Can't keep listening 24/7 lol. But so far so good.

I created my own Beats1 Likes list and put everything on there I enjoy. Should make for a nice workout list and I can later listen to whole albums of the artists.

Xando · Jun 30, 2015

Suprised at how good the music is. Wouldn't have guessed that tbh.

sometimes i game · Jun 30, 2015

I really liked that Eminem song, but one of my favorite albums of his was the one with Toy Soldier, so I don't know what that says about me

Servbot24 · Jun 30, 2015

I wonder if the show will be archived in any way. Would love to catch up on it.

TheAbsolution · Jun 30, 2015

Servbot24 said:
I wonder if the show will be archived in any way. Would love to catch up on it.

Apple says on demand programming is coming soon.

smokeandmirrors · Jun 30, 2015

What I thought would be my least used feature and something I didn't care about might just become numero uno for me.

Xater · Jun 30, 2015

TheAbsolution said:
Apple says on demand programming is coming soon.

They should also do stations curated by the DJs.

Kinsella · Jun 30, 2015

infiniteloop said:
lol ok dude.

I meant it kills it for me. Why the hell would I want to listen to censored music? Why would anyone?

oti xero said:
This feels like an E3 press conference thread with live reactions. I like it.

And I don't even own an Apple device haha

When iTunes gets an update you can get this on a non Apple device (if you own a PC).

Ninja Kn1ght · Jun 30, 2015

I've always loved listening to radio hosted by people with taste so this is huge for me. Loving it so far. Really looking forward to St.Vincent's show.

Ferny · Jun 30, 2015

Kinsella said:
I meant it kills it for me. Why the hell would I want to listen to censored music? Why would anyone?

This radio service will be available for everyone. That means kids and adults alike. They have to censor it across the board.

Majine · Jun 30, 2015

Some DnB up in this.

PapaJustify · Jun 30, 2015

Love it. And it doesn't require a subscription. It's perfect.

Keyser Soze · Jun 30, 2015

Something just dropped, that's for sure.

Kinsella · Jun 30, 2015

Ferny said:
This radio service will be available for everyone. That means kids and adults alike. They have to censor it across the board.

Then don't play music that needs to be censored as much as that Dr Dre track needed to be.

sometimes i game · Jun 30, 2015

Kinsella said:
I meant it kills it for me. Why the hell would I want to listen to censored music? Why would anyone?

Meh, I understand logistically why it works this way. Beats 1 has been insane for curation and discovery, I can go and manually pull up a song if I don't want to hear the censored version. I definitely can't say censoring kills "any chance it had."

TheAbsolution · Jun 30, 2015

Kinsella said:
Then don't play music that needs to be censored as much as that Dr Dre track needed to be.

You can just go ahead and listen to the uncensored version if you want to.

Vanillalite · Jun 30, 2015

This reminds me a lot of what the indie channel on Sirius does during the week. They have blog radio where they have "influential" music bloggers come on and host for a few hours and spin their own tunes. You tend to hear a wider variety of music too compared to what is usually played on XMU.

I hope Beats 1 turns out as good as regular streaming "radio" has a lot to be desired.

Junior Mint · Jun 30, 2015

I somewhat agree. Playing censored songs means I'll only ever listen if I get REALLY tired of my own music. I probably would have considered leaving it playing in the background but not with garbled, censored versions of songs playing.

Keyser Soze · Jun 30, 2015

Kinsella said:
Then don't play music that needs to be censored as much as that Dr Dre track needed to be.

That was the censored edit that has always been available. It was a bad edit, sure, but it has always been that way

infiniteloop · Jun 30, 2015

wondered how long it would take until they played Wolf Alice.

Inferno313 · Jun 30, 2015

While the censoring doesn't bother me, since this is all digital and being played on an iPhone, it would be a really cool feature in the future for the app to dynamically play the censored/uncensored version of the song based on the user's preferences.

Rootbeer · Jun 30, 2015

Subbing. Love the potential this station and any sub-stations they eventually spin off have. I remember the collective experience of enjoying MTV at its height, discussing its programming with friends etc., ... I'd like to see this being something on that level for the smartdevice generation.

Mononoke · Jun 30, 2015

We need Kanye to DJ for an entire day.

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