How to Share Apple Music to Your Instagram Story

Share a song from the Music app

1. In the Music app, find the song or album you want to share. To share what’s playing, open Now Playing.
2. Tap the More button (•••) and tap Share.
3. Choose Instagram in the share sheet. If you don’t see it, swipe the row of apps and tap More.
4. Instagram opens a new story with the album artwork. Add text or stickers, then post it to Your Story.

The story links back to the song in Apple Music, so friends can tap through and listen. The card itself doesn’t play any audio.

How to add the song’s audio

To make your story play the song, add Instagram’s Music sticker: in the story editor, tap the sticker button, choose Music, search for the song, and pick the part you want to play. The Music sticker comes from Instagram’s own music library, so availability can vary by song and by region.

Post a moving video of your album art with Marquee

A still card is fine; a record spinning on a turntable is better. Marquee is an Apple Music player that turns the song you’re playing into a story-ready video built around the album artwork. Choose from five styles:

1. Vinyl — your album on a spinning record.
2. Cassette — a tape with winding spools.
3. CD — your album art on a spinning compact disc.
4. Equalizer — your album art as dancing equalizer bars.
5. Marquee — your song up in lights on a theater sign.

Each video is 8 seconds long, at full 1080 × 1920 story size, with the song title, artist, and a small “Made with Marquee for Apple Music” credit. It’s drawn in your theme’s accent color. Sharing videos is free, and every style is available, even if you use the free Classic player.

How to share a song video to Instagram Stories

1. Download Marquee free from the App Store and allow access to Apple Music.
2. Play a song and open Now Playing.
3. Tap the share button at the top right of the player.
4. Pick a style — Vinyl, Cassette, CD, Equalizer, or Marquee — and watch the live preview.
5. Tap Create Video. When it’s ready, the share sheet opens: choose Instagram, then Stories.
6. In Instagram, add the Music sticker so the song plays, and post.

The video is silent on purpose: Apple Music audio can’t be exported from any app, and Instagram adds licensed audio through its Music sticker. Because Marquee hands the video to the share sheet, the same video works anywhere that accepts video, from Messages to other social apps.

Share your listening stats instead

Want to share your week rather than one song? Every Sunday, Marquee’s Your Week recap can be shared as a Marquee Sign, Ticket Stub, Chart Poster, or Setlist card at full story size, free. See Apple Music Wrapped and Replay for how.