What’s the most ‘Shazamed’ song ever?

August 19, 2022

I remember using Shazam on my iPhone for the first time years ago and feeling like I was genuinely witnessing voodoo magic.

It seemed incredible that my iPhone could accurately identify the music playing at 2 a.m. in some scuzzy San Francisco sliced pizza place.

Since then, I use the Shazam app All. The. Time.

I often use Siri to Shazam a song in a hurry. I have the Shazam complication on my Apple Watch.

It usually works great. And the playlist that Shazam creates in Apple Music is one of my favorites.

Can you believe it -- the app is 20 years old today!

To celebrate its birthday, Apple (which now owns the music-recognition service) released a special playlist of the most Shazamed song of each year for the past two decades.

Apple also published a bunch of factoids about the app, including the first-ever Shazamed track, the most Shazamed songs by genre, and the most Shazamed track of all time (which unfortunately I cannot stand).

Hit the post for the full, fascinating breakdown.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

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