Shazam celebrates its 20th anniversary this Friday. For the occasion, the music recognition platform has published some key statistics on its use and has listed the most searched artists and songs through the application.
As a result, it is the rapper Drake who wins the title of the most “shazamed” artist on the platform with 350 million searches. Among his emblematic songs, his piece a danceReleased in 2016, it is the most popular on Shazam and has been searched for over 17 million times on the platform.
Gnarls Barkley and Dance Monkey
Shazam released the first version of its music recognition tool in August 2002 in the UK. UK users could identify the track they were looking for by dialing “2580” and holding their phone near the speaker where the track was playing. They then received an SMS with the title of the song they were looking for and the name of the artist. At that time, the most “Shazamed” song was crazy by Gnarls Barkley.
Shazam then became an app in 2008. Today, the 20-year-old platform has officially surpassed 70 billion searches and has more than 225 million monthly users worldwide. The now most “shazamed” title of the app is dancing monkey by Tones And I, released in 2019, which has more than 41 million searches.
Source: BFM TV
