Chart Listings: Shazam Discussion Thread
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What Is Shazam?
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Shazam is an app for Macs, PCs, and smartphones, best known for its music identification capabilities that has expanded to integrations with cinema, advertising, TV and retail environments. Shazam uses a smartphone or computer’s built-in microphone to gather a brief sample of audio being played. It creates an acoustic fingerprint based on the sample and compares it against a central database for a match. If it finds a match, it sends information such as the artist, song title, and album back to the user. Some implementations of Shazam incorporate relevant links to services such as iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or Zune. In December 2013, Shazam was one of the top ten apps in the world, according to its CEO. The Shazam app has more than 100 million monthly active users and has been used on more than 500 million mobile devices, as of August 2014. In October 2014, Shazam announced its technology has been used to identify 15 billion songs. |
Many people I know use the app (or similar apps) to identify songs they don’t know on the radio or at a party. It’s a very useful app, and I have used it in the past as well.
Shazam produces top 100 charts for the most Shazamed songs in many different countries, including the US & UK. There is also a WW chart.
Although I won’t have time to post the top 100 chart each day, I’ve still created this thread as a place to discuss the Shazam charts.
