Shazam hits 100 billion track recognitions
Shazam has officially surpassed 100 billion track recognitions.
The music identification app, which originally launched as an SMS service in 2002, became available on the App Store in 2006 and was eventually bought by Apple for $400 million in 2018.
“This monumental milestone not only reflects how much people enjoy using Shazam, but also their appetite for new music,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats in a statement.
The press statement points out that the 100 billion mark is equivalent to “12 songs identified for every person on Earth”.
Back in August, Kavinsky’s synthwave favourite ‘Nightcall’ overtook Tones And I’s viral 2019 hit, ‘Dance Monkey,’ to become the most Shazamed song in a single day.
The French electro-pop artist’s 2010 single, which rose to fame after appearing in the hit film Drive, was featured in the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics on 11th August, which resulted in 6,921,000 Shazams, catapulting it to the top of the Top 200 Global chart on Shazam.
In other Apple news, the tech giant recently updated its flagship DAW, Logic Pro, to version 11.1, adding a variety of new features, bug fixes, tweaks and effects. A new hearing aid function for Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 was also announced in September.
Revisit our 2018 opinion piece on Track IDs.
