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How can I play all songs from one artist?

For artists I only have two albums, I can play all songs. So if the last song of album #1 was played, the first song of album #2 is played. That's fine.

But when I have more than two albums of an artist in my apple music, I can only repeat one song or one album. If the last song of one album was played, the next song played is first song of the same album and not the first song of the next album. How can I play all songs from one artist?

iPhone 5, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 7, 2015 2:14 AM

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Posted on Feb 4, 2017 9:44 PM

I have almost the exact same problem, but I want to play all of the songs from one artist in the order they appear. I hate the shuffle feature. Is there anyway I can start with the first song on the first album and play them all of the way through to the last song on the last album and have them repeat without shuffling them? I have over 4,000 songs. For most of my songs, I have them in the exact order I like them played. I cannot create new playlists. If I can't do this, can I switch back to the old version?

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Aug 16, 2016 10:16 AM in response to Querk

And...another unhappy customer. My last iPhone was a while ago. I loved the iTunes app (before it was just Music). Now I'm trying to listen to just REM songs, and for the life of me can't figure out how. Turns out, I can't! ***? Why wouldn't I be able to browse songs by artist? It's a basic database, and has been around since iTunes on OS 9 for Pete's sake. I'm really regretting going iPhone with my latest phone because of this.

Mar 3, 2017 4:20 AM in response to Bigtaytay5150

Yes, but they are listed alphabetically, not in order of album as I have them conveniently in iTunes on my MacBook. Any solution to this? I have some artists where I have some 'Albums' that are just single songs or just a few, like a single release; I would like to listen to an artist's work in order of release while on a drive, but not necessarily with the forethought to have created a playlist for each & every one. Any solution to the alphabetical listing? Otherwise your solution is great.

Aug 7, 2017 9:24 AM in response to KGriff

This doesn't work on my iPad. Running iOS 10.3.3.


All clicking on the artist's picture does is show all the albums from that artist on the right hand side of the screen. There is no option to get all the music by that artist to start playing.


Is this answer out of date? Is there any way to shuffle through all the songs by a single artist without creating a playlist?


In addition, is there any way to display the albums within an artist by year instead of by name? Currently they are sorted by name in my iPad and there doesn't seem to be a way to change it.

How can I play all songs from one artist?

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