{"id":121712,"date":"2020-12-07T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/12\/07\/apple-music-marks-up-next-class-of-2020-with-a-roundup-video"},"modified":"2020-12-07T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:55:11","slug":"apple-music-marks-up-next-class-of-2020-with-a-roundup-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/07\/apple-music-marks-up-next-class-of-2020-with-a-roundup-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music marks Up Next &#8216;Class of 2020&#8217; with a roundup video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/apple-music-marks-up-next-class-of-2020-with-a-roundup-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Apple has released a video promoting the Up Next &#8220;Class of 2020,&#8221; new artists championed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-music\">Apple Music<\/a> initiative throughout the year. <\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Apple Music&#8217;s Up Next aims to shine a light on upcoming musicians, bands, and musical artists that Apple believes are &#8220;fresh-faced innovators and ground-breakers&#8221; in the music scene. One up-and-coming artist is selected each month to become the focus of the initiative, which includes promotion on Apple Music itself, a mini documentary or an interview, an Up Next Session, and potentially a television performance. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 embed\">\n<div class=\"align-center\">\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zygluv9a-cU]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Subscribers to Apple Music are able to listen to the featured artist in the dedicated &#8220;Up Next&#8221; playlist, which also includes songs from other new artists. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>To mark the end of the year, Apple Music&#8217;s YouTube channel has published a minute-long reminder of the 12 artists that make up the &#8220;Class of 2020.&#8221; The video also includes links to interviews given by each month&#8217;s selected artist, which can be watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhQwIpR4GYnCjilEp7FrDxDMkrTV_kryc\">on YouTube<\/a>. A dedicated <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.co\/UpNext20\">Class of 2020 page<\/a> is also available in Apple Music. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>The Up Next artist list for 2020 is: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<ul>\n<li>Orville Peck<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Monet<\/li>\n<li>Ingrid Andress<\/li>\n<li>Conan Gray<\/li>\n<li>Don Toliver<\/li>\n<li>BENEE<\/li>\n<li>Holly Humberstone<\/li>\n<li>Natanael Cano<\/li>\n<li>Giveon<\/li>\n<li>Baebadoobee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Previous artists to have been named an Up Next artist include Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny, Greta Van Fleet, Megan Thee Stallion, and Khalid. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released a video promoting the Up Next &#8220;Class of 2020,&#8221; new artists championed by the Apple Music initiative throughout the year. Apple Music&#8217;s Up Next aims to shine a light on upcoming musicians, bands, and musical artists that Apple believes are &#8220;fresh-faced innovators and ground-breakers&#8221; in the music scene. One up-and-coming artist is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}