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Apple Announces Shazam Has Identified More Than 100 Billion Songs

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Apple today announced that music recognition tool Shazam has identified more than 100 billion songs since it launched. Shazam started as an SMS service in the U.K. in 2002, and it became one of the first iPhone apps available on the App Store in 2008.

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Apple shared some fun comparisons for this statistic:
- That's equivalent to 12 songs identified for every person on Earth.
- A person would need to use Shazam to identify a song every second for 3,168 years to reach 100 billion.
- That's more than 2,200x the number of identifications of Shazam's top song ever, "Dance Monkey," with over 45 million tags.
- Shazam Predictions 2023 alum Benson Boone's "Beautiful Things" was the first track released this year to hit 10 million recognitions, and the fastest, doing so in 178 days. At that pace, it would take more than 4,800 years for it to hit 100 billion.
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Apple acquired Shazam in 2018, and it now powers the Music Recognition feature built into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Shazam is deeply integrated across Apple's software platforms, including in Control Center, Siri, as an Action button option on iPhone 15 Pro models and all iPhone 16 models, as a Smart Stack widget on the Apple Watch, and more.

The playlist below includes Shazam's top 100 most-identified songs, with the list currently topped by the 2019 song "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I.

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Yes but how many did it not identify? SoundHound allows you to save the request until later and then check it again and then it might find it. :rolleyes:

What about top USA search results?

Never heard of dance monkey, I’ll have to check it out now. :p
 
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For less mainstream or local music I'm often more successful with SoundHound FWIW. Even more so with less than ideal background noise. Although I still envy a bit Pixel's on-device constant music recognition... Shazam's continuos mode never really worked reliably on my devices 😢
 
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i still can't take this serious.

shazam to me is from the old days of having a Nokia 3310, calling a phone number, and holding the phone up to a radio or cd player.

change the name for goodness sake.

it's a good technology but why do they need a name for it?
 
Apple bought Shazam, right? Recognising 100B songs is not something to be proud of, Apple. You haven't Done The Work™.
 
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I've had more misses than its with this. And when you ask it to re-do the search, it will just bring you down a rabbit hole of songs that are unlike what you searched for.

Someone thought it sensible to have the results of a search disappear from your UI/screen in seconds. So you have to act quickly, grab a screenshot. What an absolutely stupid idea.
 
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Perhaps it's just me but I don't think it works as well as it did prior to its acquisition by Apple. Before it was acquired, the thing was dead accurate even in really noisy environments. Now it seems like there almost has to be no background noise for it to work.
 
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I think that 100B must include incorrect identifications. About half the time it can't identify the song, the other half is almost always wrong (but it doesn't ask me if it got it right or not). I think it only found the right song once or twice. This is out of about 50 tries for me, all non-US pop music. My experience was a waste of time.
 
Shazam to me is one of those tools I don't use much but when I do, it's absolutely amazing, always recognizes what I throw at it.

Kind of like Walkie-Talkie on my watch, I hardly use it but when I do, it's one of my favorite features on my watch. I used to have issues initially with it, but its always working now.
 
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Yes but how many did it not identify? SoundHound allows you to save the request until later and then check it again and then it might find it. :rolleyes:

What about top USA search results?

Never heard of dance monkey, I’ll have to check it out now. :p
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Shazam does the same - I’ve had it not recognise a song initially and then it notifies me of a match later.
 
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