Artist profiles on Apple Music are becoming more useful with personalized bios, lyrics, creation date, band members, and more.
- What is happening? Apple announced new features for creators who publish their work to Apple Music, including the ability to customize artist pages.
- Why care? Because the artist pages in Apple Music are not very useful from the start. Currently, you can only see a custom image or animation and nothing else.
- What to do? If you’re an artist, check your inbox for an email from Apple outlining the changes. If not, check out some artists’ Apple Music pages in a few weeks when those lazy musicians update their pages.
Artist biographies with lyrics and more
Starting today, creators can take advantage of new personalization features to make their profile pages more attractive. The email alert informs artists and publishers that they can now add a custom biography section to their Apple Music profiles.
In addition, musicians can add information such as date of birth, hometown, and year of creation to their profile, as well as identify band members, collaborators, influences, and pronouns. Read: How to manage your Apple Music subscription
As you know, songs in Apple Music come with lyrics that you can view in the Music app. And now artists can optionally add their lyrics to their page by simply copying and pasting the formatted text into their profile.
Apple Music profile pages just got more attractive
Not many listeners know that they can visit artist profiles on Apple Music. With that in mind, Apple clearly hopes that lyrics, user bios, and other benefits will encourage fans to visit the profiles of their favorite musicians much more often.
And if they find useful information there, such as tour dates, latest releases, lyrics, and whatever you have, people will be able to interact more with the artist and his work.
Artists simply answer a series of short questions through the Apple Music for Artists platform at artist.apple.com to create a personalized bio.
Personalized artist pages are now unfolding.
Creators and publishers can also manage profile access in the backend – an artist can now invite a team member to update their profile with new information. Various roles are available such as administrators, analysts, and profile editors.
How to access an artist’s profile page in Apple Music
To go to an artist’s profile page in Apple Music, right-click (macOS), tap and hold (iOS/PadOS), or select (tvOS) their name in the Music app on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, then select Show in Apple”. Music.
Keep in mind that musicians can be lazy when it comes to digital marketing. Someone has to write an individual bio, collect other band members’ bios, insert lyrics, create your own graphics, etc. This takes time, so you should try checking the profile pages for changes after a few weeks.