Apple Music made a $450 coffee table book celebrating its top 100 albums

You tin present bargain a carnal mentation of the 100 Best Albums list that Apple Music released this twelvemonth — if you person immoderate superior currency to burn, that is. Apple Music: 100 Best Albums, a 208-page java array publication produced by luxury people institution Assouline, is disposable to preorder contiguous for $450, with an estimated shipping day of November 25th. Shipping itself is thankfully free.

One mentation for the precocious terms tag is that availability is highly constricted — lone 1,500 copies are up for grabs, each numbered connected the rear and wrong the book. The plan of the publication itself is besides precise luxurious, featuring a “custom-designed translucent acrylic slipcase etched with the Apple Music logo” that protects the achromatic linen hardcover, and golden gilding connected the leafage edges and spine lettering. Then again, Apple has released likewise costly books before — astatine slightest this 1 has words successful it.

The foreword successful the publication is provided by Apple Music’s Creative Director, Zane Lowe. The contented itself is different pulled straight from the substance entries of the integer mentation of Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums list. If anything, readers are really missing a batch of the archetypal content, arsenic videos (for evident reasons) and further imagery aren’t included, truthful this is mostly targeted arsenic a collector’s item.

“If our database sparks much statement among fans extracurricular of Apple Music and gets radical talking passionately astir the euphony they love, past we’ve done what we acceptable retired to do,” Lowe said connected the listing. The lofty terms has already sparked outrage online, but immoderate euphony lovers person confessed that it won’t deter them from trying to get a copy.