"Our mission is to help people recognize and engage with the world around them"
Shazam is a mobile app that recognises music on your phone or playing around you. It is the best way to discover, explore and share the music you love. Shazam now delivers 1 billion song results every month to users worldwide. This app is available on Apple and Android devices.
How did we get here?
2002
Dialling "2580" on your phone and holding it up to the music was all you had to do to use Shazam. Users were sent an SMS message telling them the song title and the name of the artist.
2008
Shazam was one of the first apps in the brand new Apple App Store.
2011
In addition to music, the app was extended to let you Shazam TV programs and ads to get special offers and more information on what you were watching.
Today
Shazam joins the Apple family and continues to improve the music discovery journey for all of its users.
How does Shazam work?
This is a question we get often asked. Here is a quick summary of the three main steps involved from the moment you Shazam until the magic happens.
Let's say you are in a shop and you like the music you're hearing. Start the app and tap the Shazam button.
A digital fingerprint of the audio is created and, within seconds, matched against Shazam's database of millions of tracks.
You are then given the name of the track and the artist and information such as lyrics, video, artist biography, concert tickets and recommended tracks.
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