Apple Music is a fantastic platform for discovering new music and listening to your favorite artists. Navigating through the app, you’ll likely stumble upon curated sections like “Hot Tracks” or similar playlists designed to highlight what’s popular right now. However, many users, just like you, have encountered a frustrating issue: trying to simply play all the songs in these top song lists sequentially. It seems like it should be a basic function, right? Hit play and listen to all the hottest tracks Apple Music has to offer. Unfortunately, it’s not quite that intuitive.
For years, Apple Music users have voiced their confusion and annoyance in online forums. The core complaint? You can’t just press play on “Hot Tracks” and have it roll through every single song in the list. Instead, it often feels like you’re forced to select tracks individually, or after one song finishes, you’re kicked back to the list, requiring manual selection of the next. This breaks the flow of music discovery and can be incredibly tedious, especially when you just want to explore the latest top hits without constant interaction.
One user in a forum perfectly captured this frustration, asking, “Is there a way to just play all hot tracks instead of one individual song at a time?” This sentiment is echoed by many others who find this lack of a simple “play all” function counterintuitive, especially coming from Apple, a company known for user-friendly design. Some even speculated that Apple might be intentionally hindering autoplay of popular songs, perhaps to avoid over-promoting already trending music.
While Apple hasn’t officially addressed this user experience quirk, some users have discovered workarounds. One helpful tip involves initiating playback from the “landing screen” of the New section in Apple Music. By selecting a song directly from under the carousel of images, rather than going directly into the “Hot Tracks” section first, users have found that the “Up Next” list populates with more of the songs from that list. You can then navigate into the “Hot Tracks” list itself, and playback may continue through more tracks.
However, even this workaround isn’t perfect. As some users pointed out, it might only play a limited number of songs, not the entire “Hot Tracks” list. Manually creating a playlist of top songs is another option, but it’s a cumbersome, manual process that doesn’t automatically update with Apple’s curated lists.
The desire for a seamless “play all” function for top song lists in Apple Music remains a consistent user request. For a service focused on music discovery and enjoyment, the current experience can feel clunky and detract from the overall user satisfaction. Hopefully, future Apple Music updates will address this long-standing issue and provide a more intuitive way to enjoy all the top songs Apple Music has to offer. Until then, users are left relying on workarounds and hoping for improvements to streamline their music discovery experience.
