This Friday, August 19, Shazam 20 years old and has been part of the past five years ManjanaCelebrating it by providing interesting statistics about the song title search app.
The app has helped discover new and old artists and revitalize certain genres. Indeed, Shazam illustrations have also become a barometer of unexpected moments in pop culture. “Running Up That Hill,” featured on Kate Bush’s 1985 hit “Stranger Things,” led to the singer’s all-time high on Shazam, with the song reaching #1 on the Shazam Global Top 200 for 10 days. It reached the top 25 national charts in 2022, more than any other song.
Important days
- August 2002: Shazam starts out as a UK-based texting service. At that time, users could identify songs by dialing “2580” on their phone and grab it as a song. They were then sent an SMS with the title of the song and the name of the artist.
- July 2008: Shazam Launches New App Store Shazam released its Android version in October 2008.
- April 2015: Shazam is first available on Apple Watch.
- September 2018: Shazam joins the Apple family.
- June 2021: Shazam has surpassed 1 billion Shazams per month.
- May 2022: Shazam surpasses 2 billion lifetime installs.
- August 2022: Shazam celebrates 20 years of musical innovation and reaches 70 billion Shazams of all time.
Milestones:
- Shahjamed First Song: D. Rex “The Jeepster” (April 19, 2002)1
- The first song Shazamed in the iOS app: “How I’m Different” by Aimee Mann (July 10, 2008)
- First song to reach 1,000 Shazams: “Cleaning Out My Closet” by Eminem (September 2002)
- First track to hit one million Shazams: “TiK ToK” by Ke$ha (February 2010)
- First song to hit 10 million Shazams: “Someone I Know” of Gotti’s record. Kimbra (December 2012)
- First song to hit 20 million Shazams: “Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Radio Edit)” by Lily Wood & The Brick and Robin Schulz (October 2015)
- First artist to reach 1 million Shazams: Lil Wayne (February 2009)
- First artist to reach 10 million Shazams: Lil Wayne (June 2011)
- First artist to reach 100 million Shazams: David Guetta (May 2015)
Fast tracks to rack up Shazams
- The Fastest Path to Reaching 1 Million Shazams: “Butter” by BTS (Nine Days)
- The Fastest Path to Reaching 10 Million Shazams: “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran (87 Days)
- The Fastest Path to Reaching 20 Million Shazams: “Dance Monkey” by Tones and I (219 Days)
The most Shazam of all time
- Drake He is the most Shazam artist of all time with over 350 million Shazams across all songs performed or featured by the artist. “A Dance” Drake’s most popular song with over 17 million Shazams.
- “Dance Monkey” of Tones and me The most Shazam song in history with over 41 million Shazams.
- “crazy” of Gnarls Barkley “2580” is the most Shazam song ever made using the text service.
The best Shazamed songs of the genre
- Best Hip-Hop/Rap: “Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
- Top Dance: “Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Radio Edit)” by Lily Wood & The Brick and Robin Schulz
- Best R&B/Soul: “All of Me” by John Legend
- Best Latin: “My People” by Jay Balvin and Willie William
- Best Pop: Traveler’s “Let Her Go”
- Best alternative: “Dance Monkey” by Tones and I
- Best Singer/Songwriter: “Take Me to Church” by Hozier
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