Completely agree. This was Beats Music’s raison d’etre, and Apple Not only maintained the playlist curation team/process/whatever, but have made it bigger and better.
My favorite playlists get regularly updated - seemingly by the same person, or someone with extremely similar tastes in music, and I love it.
Hard to take artists demands to be paid better seriously when they keep agreeing to things like this.
Honestly they are their own worst enemy at times.
I started using Apple Music because Spotify’s attempts to ruin podcasts by making them exclusive to their platform irritated me.
Discover weekly is a really great thing though and Apple Music’s stuff isn’t as good.
However I do find that both services largely recommend the same music to me. They just have different mechanisms of surfacing it.
To go along with Discover Weekly there's also a Release Radar playlist that updates every Friday with that week's new releases from your artists.
Spotify is so deeply engrained into my weekly schedule that I really look forward to the Discover Weekly and Release Radar playlists bookending my work weeks.
Spotify seems to be pushing out playlist after playlist without giving much afterthought. The quality is just not there , some seem to be auto-generated and a lot of playlist are duplicate/similar to each other.
Apple's playlist are regularly manually curated and you can know the theme just by glancing through their succinct titles.
One thing that really differentiates it is that the curated playlists seem a lot more cared for than with Spotify. I've found so many of the pre-made playlists that I enjoy, and with Spotify you just can't really do that since you never know what's really there because the curator liked it and what's there because the label paid for it. Fun fact: The Apple Music Android app is suprisingly decent!