The Absurdity Of Apple Music for Artists.
Multi-Trillion Dollar Infrastructure with some of the largest data centers on earth, yet their artist analytics regularly lag by 72+ hours, crash during global batch updates, and throw cryptic server errors "The Artist portal is currently experiencing an outage."
What makes more Absurd?
The entire "Promote" toolkit is literally just an automated banner with an image from the artist album designed to turn the artist into unpaid billboard space for Apple Music!!!
You hear "Promote your music on Apple," you reasonably expect discovery campaigns, pitch placements, or algorithmic boosts. Instead, “Here is your album artwork with an Apple Music logo on it. Congratulations, you are now our marketing department.... share it in your social media”, seriously?!
Meanwhile, the analytics dashboard is acting like a 2005 government website trying to process your request through three fax machines!
Apple has spent decades building an ecosystem obsessed with **beautiful interfaces**, yet the moment you want to see the metrics of your release you get an error **“Data may be unavailable.”**
Beautifully designed rectangle.
Absolutely no fucking data.
Just brilliant!