Ellise Shafer administratorShazam has crossed a major milestone. According to Apple, the song recognition app has surpassed 1 billion song matches per month, bringing its total to 50 billion tags since its inception in 2002.Since Shazam’s start as a text message service, its number of song matches per month has continued to grow, reaching exponential heights in 2008 when it launched on Apple’s App Store.
Shazam reached 1 billion total tags in 2012, and has now achieved the same rate per month less than 10 years after crossing that milestone.“Shazam is synonymous with magic,” Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats, said in a statement. “Both for the fans getting a song recognition almost instantly, and for the.
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