The best music streaming services (Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music, to name a few) offer personalized radio stations with songs they think you'll love listening to based on your listening habits. Now, YouTube Music makes it much easier to share your personalized playlist with friends and followers by letting you share it directly to your channel.
The feature is now rolling out widely to users under the name “Radio You” (via 9to5Google), and while it's similar to previous features that let you share your favorite songs, artists, and playlists on your channel, the advantage of Radio You is that it's “always updating” according to Google — specifically, Google says it's “updated daily.”
This means you won't have to feel embarrassed if you forgot to update your playlist for months, as Radio You will always be ready to share something new with listeners.
To share your radio or other personal music stats, go to the YouTube Music app or website, navigate to your channel page, and tap the Edit button with the pencil icon next to it. Then, under Channel Settings, turn on “Enable Public Stats” or “Enable Public Personal Radio” and click Enable in the pop-up menu if you’re willing to share that information.
You can turn these settings off later if you'd rather not share your listening habits on YouTube Music. And if you find it strange to send people to your channel to listen to your radio, you can also access it via a direct link to the endless custom playlist.
Currently, these recommendations are also limited to your YouTube Music channel, but it would be interesting to see YouTube add the ability to listen to your favorite content creator's radio on their main channel if the feature is enabled.
The Radio You feature is currently rolling out, so if you don't see it, the update may not have arrived in your account yet. But wait, you'll see the feature soon: Google will reportedly add a Radio You card to the home feed, which will promote the tool when you have access to it.
If you're still waiting for it to appear, there are other recently added tools you can try on YouTube Music, such as the “hum to search” feature that will help you find tracks when you can only remember the tune and not the name.
