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Shazam hits 100 billion song recognitions

Shazam has reached a milestone of 100 billion song recognitions since its launch. This achievement highlights the app's popularity and its role in music discovery. Shazam started in 2002 as an SMS service in the UK and has evolved significantly, especially after joining the Apple family in 2018. Recent innovations include Music Recognition on iOS and macOS, and integration with the Action button on iPhone and Apple Watch. Shazam continues to connect over 300 million monthly active users with their favourite artists, according to the press release post on Apple's Newsroom website.You should know Shazam, not the superhero, well, you can also call Shazam a superhero: your music discovery superhero. It listens to a part of a song that's playing and searches online to tell you the song. For the most part, it works like magic!It's amazing to see that it has reached a hundred billion song recognitions. Wow! What a milestone. It even fascinates me to know that they have been keeping count of every discovery. That's some data diligence.(Insights and photos: Apple Newsroom)