We analyzed a month of Beats 1 tracks to figure out Apple’s taste in music

To get a sense of the station’s tastes and habits, we analyzed data on more than 12,000 songs played on Beats 1 from early July to early August. The song data was collected by Callum Jones, a programmer at Nitrous, who has open-sourced his tool over on GitHub. Jones also has a Twitter bot that automatically tweets whatever song is playing. Here are the top tracks for the month we studied—the Apple top 20: