Prior to the news of the app’s 200m-plus MAUs, the last official Shazam user figures came last year, after the UK-born firm posted its financial results through Companies House in the UK for the year ended December 31, 2018.
At the time, the company revealed that it had 478m active annual users in 2018, up 78m from 400m the previous year.
The Apple-owned company has also shared the list of the 100 most Shazamed tracks ever globally, through a chart-playlist on Apple Music.
Tones and I’s single Dance Monkey tops the all-time list, with over 36.6m Shazams since its release in May 2019, followed by Lilly Wood & The Prick & Robin Schulz’s Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Radio Edit) and Passenger’s Let Her Go closing the Top 3.
Apple products are benefiting from deeper integration with Shazam two years on from with the company’s buyout, with the likes of a control Center module for Shazam recently becoming available for iOS and iPadOS users. A “Shazam from Notification” bar is also now enabled on Android.
Apple Music also launched the Shazam Discovery Top 50 chart last year to serve as a weekly global ranking of the biggest trending tracks on the music recognition platform.
“Looking back at our long history together, we can only see how close our missions have been: bringing the best home for music lovers and creators everywhere.”
Quote from Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music, Beats, and International Content: “Apple Music and Shazam offer a seamless experience to music fans around the world, from Shazam’s ubiquitous discovery platform to Apple Music’s unparalleled content, global live radio stations and human curation.
“Looking back at our long history together, we can only see how close our missions have been: bringing the best home for music lovers and creators everywhere.”
“Shazam has been a huge platform for me in terms of reaching people.”
Tones and I
Tones and I added: “Shazam has been a huge platform for me in terms of reaching people.
“I didn’t have a following when I released Dance monkey, but it gave me the opportunity to reach more people and elevate my fan-base, which has all let to creating a career for myself.
“Shazam is definitely an app designed to help more unknown artists, and everyone knows Tones loves an up-and-comer!”Music Business Worldwide
