Thania Garcia For Shazam’s 20th birthday, the music discovery app compiled a list of its most searched artists and songs and found that Drake holds the title as the top artist with 350 million Shazams.
Across the songs he has led or featured on, Drake’s “One Dance” is his most sought-after track at over 17 million Shazams.Shazam launched the first version of their tool back in August of 2002 when they experimented with a text message service based in the UK.
Users could identify songs by dialing “2580” on their phone and holding the device up to a speaker as a song played. They were then sent an SMS message telling them the song title and the name of the artist.
At the time, the most Shazamed song was “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley. Shazam would later appear on the app store in 2008 and launched its Andriod version in October of the same year.
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