The star just means they are ‘popular’ tracks. The star just means they are ‘popular’ tracks ., and that’s annoying. I understand how it would be helpful in the i. Tunes Store and the Apple Music section, but it’s unnecessary in the music library of music you’ve already added or purchased.
Apple has previously explained why a Star actually appears in Apple Music, however, that doesn’t seem to have satisfied the users. This is because the company has only offered a brief statement saying that these are simply hot tracks. Ideally, a star icon is generally assigned to songs based on their performance.
According to the user guide, stars appear next to the most popular tracks played by all Apple Music members. That’s just the mark of most popular songs. Open couple of albums of the bands you know well and you will see for yourself. Apple thinks you should like that song.
When I was reading we ran into the query “What does ‘star rating’ mean in Apple Music?”.
This essentially has to do with how popular the track is and if it is the most track from an album. Earlier, the company used to have star ratings for the tracks, where users also had the ability to rate their favourite songs. However, the star ratings feature has been removed by Apple.
Why do some songs have stars on them?
The stars appear to be tied to popularity on Apple Music, as several others have remarked. I’ve a also noticed that they only appear on songs purchased from the i, and tunes store. Music ripped from CDs or downloaded from third party websites do not have any such star delineation.
I believe the star against a song title in the track listing of an album, indicates that song was a single off the album. I hope this helped someone. U2 latest album has stars on the first five songs, while they have only released two singles.