The numbers are impressive: Shazam has already recognized 100 billion songs

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The Shazam application has recognized 100 billion songs since its launch. To reach this figure, one person would have to use it to search every second for 3,168 consecutive years.

The Shazam program has already identified 100 billion songs. This is equivalent to 12 tracks identified for every person on Earth. This was announced by Apple on November 20.

Shazamis a melody recognition service that searches for information about a piece of music based on a short audio recording. The user uses a microphone to record a fragment of music playing somewhere. The program then compares the fragment with a central database and, if the match is successful, provides information about the track.

Shazam started in 2002 as an SMS service in the UK. You had to dial 2580 and receive the song title and artist via text message. The platform's popularity grew dramatically after its launch in 2008, when it was added to the App Store. By the summer of 2011, Shazam had recognized over 1 billion songs.

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Now this figure has reached over 100 billion – that's 12 songs for every person on Earth. This is more than 2,200 times the number of searches for the most popular song on the Dance Monkey app by Tones and I: it has been “Shazamed” 45 million times.

Among recent achievements, Benson Boone's song Beautiful Things in 2023 became the first track to gain 10 million recognitions in just 178 days. But at that rate, it would take it more than 4,800 years to reach the 100 billion mark.

This shows not only how much people enjoy using Shazam, but also their appetite for new music, says Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music and Beats.

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