Apple Music Sessions are exclusive live performances recorded at Apple Studios.

Apple Music Sessions launches today on Apple Music and brings you exclusive releases of live performances recorded with spatial audio in Apple’s own studios.

• Apple Music Sessions is a new section of Apple Music that features exclusive live releases from famous artists.
• Live streams from Carrie Underwood and Tenille Towns are available now, with more to come over time, all in spatial audio.
• All performances were recorded in Apple Music’s sophisticated studios.

Introducing Apple Music Sessions

Live performances include both “creative covers”of classics and songs that the artists have recreated for live performances from their own catalogue. In addition, all performances released in this section are in spatial audio, just like the rest of the Apple Music catalog. And it’s not just about the music – Apple Music Sessions includes music videos specially recorded for the occasion.

A press release in Apple Newsroom is selling us Apple Music Sessions:

Recorded at Apple Music studios around the world, Apple Music Sessions give artists the opportunity to reimagine and recreate hits from their catalog and creative covers of favorite classics. These one-of-a-kind performances are also filmed, resulting in a special live collection of brand new spatial audio tracks and accompanying live music videos, available exclusively to Apple Music fans worldwide.

The new section opens on Friday, July 15, 2022 with releases by Carrie Underwood and country singer Tenille Townes. Many more will be featured in the coming days, including Ronnie Dunn and Ingrid Andress. These performances were recorded live in a studio to give you the feeling that the band is playing these songs live. Read: How to get detailed information about Apple Music songs on macOS

Country music releases at launch

Underwood’s Carrie Underwood: Apple Music Sessions – EP includes her hit “Ghost Story”, a stripped-down version of “Blown Away”and a cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Mama, I’m Coming Home”. Towns performed her own hits “Same Road Home”and “Somebody’s Daughter”, as well as a soulful cover of Etta James’ “At Last”. Read: How to manage your Apple Music subscription

She praised Nashville’s Apple Music record label, saying that it felt like it would be “an anchor for our Nashville music community.”

What about other genres?

This new feature from Apple Music may be country music-focused at launch, but that doesn’t mean it’s exclusive to country music. In fact, Apple has stated that it may extend these exclusive live performances to other genres of music in the future.