Shazam just recently reached the “100 billion song recognitions” mark ever since the music recognition app came into fruition back in 2002. According to music business news publication Music Business Worldwide, Shazam in 2002 started off as an SMS service in the UK where people would dial 2580, hold up their phones in the air to identify music, and receive song details via text. In 2008, it then became the popular music recognition app it is now famous for when it arrived in Apple‘s App Store. Apple then acquired Shazam in 2018 for $400 million and since then, it had developed innovative ways for its fans to discover new music, which paved the way for the app to reach 100 billion song recognitions this year.
This achievement is another strong example of the many successes that Shazam has provided for these past couple years. Last year, it launched “Concerts”, a personalized in-app concert discovery hub that lets users see any concert recommendations through any of the tracks on their Shazam history. Also in 2023, the app also unveiled the “Auto Shazam” feature, which allows users to identify songs on Shazam while they still logged onto TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other apps. With the ever-enhancing popularity of Shazam worldwide, especially as many music fans around the world have more broadening musical tastes compared to decades past, it will be a matter of time until Shazam will have a total of 1 trillion song recognitions.