Launched in the UK in 2002 - we're not getting any younger - as an SMS service, the music recognition app Shazam was one of the first to arrive on iPhone in the AppStore in 2008, before being bought by Apple in 2018 to be integrated into its iOS, iPadOS and macOS systems.
100 Billion Shazam Searches in (Other) Numbers££££
Apple announces that the app has reached the 100 billion mark for songs identified by its users, and drops some fun stats on the subject:
• This figure equates to 12 songs identified for every person on Earth
• It would take someone searching for a song on Shazam every second for 3,168 years to reach this 100 billion figure
• This is more than 2,200 times the number of identifications of the most searched song on Shazam, Dance Monkey by Australian singer Toni Watson, which has accumulated more than 45 million searches (video above)
• Benson Boone's track Beautiful Things, which was part of the Shazam Predictions 2023, was the first song released this year to reach 10 million identifications, in a record time of 178 days. At this rate, it would take over 4,800 years for it to reach 100 billion
Oliver Schusser, Apple's vice president of Apple Music and Beats, said££££
"This major milestone reflects not only the enjoyment people have of using Shazam, but also their appetite for new music," said Oliver Schusser, Apple's vice president of Apple Music and Beats. "Music discovery is at the heart of everything we do, and we're constantly innovating to ensure music lovers everywhere can press the Shazam button, no matter where they hear music!".