Tag: shazam

It’s a quirk of Apple’s music business that the company has announced more public stats for its Shazam music-recognition subsidiary in the last year than it has for its flagship streaming service. Last November, Shazam...

Apple-owned Shazam has hit some new milestones: more than 1bn tracks are being tagged a month using the app now, taking it past the 50bn mark since its original launch in 2002. More than 51m songs have been tagged overall....

Apple completed its acquisition of music identification app Shazam in September 2018, and under its ownership the app grew to 200 million monthly active users by November 2020. Now Apple is hoping Shazam will be powering...

Is it just us or has there been less publicity around ‘artist tips for 2021’ than in previous years, in terms of industry polls and streaming promotions? Shazam has made its predictions though, and is using sister...

Shazam hasn’t just been a good source of data for Apple since it acquired the music recognition app: it’s a handy marketing tool too. As witnessed by the Apple Music end-of-year promotion that’s been launched...

The last time we had a figure for how many users Apple’s music-identification app Shazam had, it was 478 million annual active users in 2018. It’s not the most satisfying of metrics for gauging an app’s...

Apple has only just released the latest major update for its iPhone software, iOS 14, but it's already hard at work on forthcoming minor updates. iOS 14.2 has been released to developers, and it includes a significant...

Shazam reached 478 million annual active users in 2018, which is 78 million more than in the previous year. The company’s revenues fell by 23% to £31.4m last year, but it swung from a loss of £17.7m in 2017 to a profit...

Apple Music is getting a new weekly chart, driven by data from Shazam, the music-identification app that Apple acquired in September 2018. The chart is called Shazam Discovery Top 50, and is a global chart ranking 50 "up-and-coming...

A big chunk of the UK’s telly viewers have been engrossed by the daily ins and outs (literally) of ITV show Love Island. Apple’s Shazam has put out some stats this morning showing the impact on music discovery. Songs...

We’re getting a sense of how music-identification app Shazam, acquired by Apple in September 2018, will be used by the company to promote Apple Music. Last night, anyone tagging a track during the Grammys ceremony unlocked...

Spotify and Deezer may have ambitions to take a chunk out of its audience in the Middle East and North Africa, but local service Anghami remains the dominant audio-streaming player in the region for now, with more than 70...