Apple today announced that music recognition tool Shazam has identified more than 100 billion songs since it launched. Shazam started as an

Apple acquired music-identification app Shazam in 2018, and has since worked it into the fabric of its iOS software – as well as continuing to develop it as a standalone app. Now the service has hit a new milestone: 100bn song recognitions since its launch all the way back in 2002.

Today, the hugely popular music recognition app Shazam announced the rather staggering news that its app-based service had exceeded 100 billion song recognitions. To put that in perspective, that's the equivalent of 12 songs for every person on Earth (not that every person on Earth has downloaded Shazam,

Australian musician Tones and I's 2019's viral single "Dance Monkey" is named the most Shazamed song of all time.

Apple-owned music identification app Shazam has announced a milestone, surpassing 100 billion song recognitions since its launch. Shazam notes that the number equates to approximately 12 songs identified for every person on the planet.

Shazam, the song recognition service that Apple acquired in 2018, today announced a major milestone: its users have now

Shazam, the wildly popular song recognition app, has reached a major milestone by identifying more than 100 billion songs — up from 70 billion songs in 2022.