Tag: shazam

Apple has been growing its music business in Africa for some time now, from Apple Music and Shazam to its Platoon artist-development team.

K-Pop stars BTS are turning their hands to radio presenting, with a three-part show that will be exclusive to Apple Music.

There are also some interesting quarterly charts of the top music and audio apps ranked by downloads.

Apple's Shazam app has long been used to discover music, but now it wants to help people discover concerts too.

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...