The Firsts app icon: the word firsts inside a hand-drawn oval
Firsts

Make the year feel long again.

A summer lasted forever when we were young, because so much of it was a first. Firsts is a small Mac app that hands you one again: an album you would never have picked, a dish you have never eaten, an hour somewhere new.

Try it on an album you love

Start from an album you love. Then go further.

This runs the app’s own pick, live: the artists your album’s listeners also play, a map of genre leaps, and every album checked on Apple Music.

Today’s first
Choose a reference album

Search above for an album you love. Firsts hands you one you have never heard, as near or as far as you set below.

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Two steps away: a related scene with a different sound.

This page knows one album. Firsts knows how you listen.

The picks above come from public references only: MusicBrainz, ListenBrainz and Wikipedia, starting from the one album you chose. On your Mac, Firsts reads what you actually play, what you replay, what you favourite and what you stopped playing, and every pick learns from the last.

  • Apple Music

    Reads your library and your plays, right on your Mac.

  • Spotify

    Your listening, through the scrobbles you send to Last.fm.

  • YouTube Music

    Your listening history, the same way.

Over a year, it should read like a long summer.

Music, food and things to do. Firsts notices when you play a pick, so there is nothing to tick off. The month just fills in.

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Firsts is in progress and runs on my Mac for now.Liam Le