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Apple Music spotlights local music with new city charts

TORONTO — Apple Music today unveiled its new “City Charts”, making it one of the first streaming platforms to spotlight the most popular music in more than 100 cities around the world. “While standard charts rank music based simply on number of plays, Apple Music’s City Charts combine plays and additional signs of local popularity to rank the top 25 songs gaining momentum with listeners locally, truly highlighting the local culture and individual music scenes of the cities they represent,” reads the company’s press release. For Canada, Apple Music has created charts for eight cities, including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg,...