Shazam is the go-to app for identifying a song playing—you simply hold your phone near the sound, and Shazam quickly recognizes the track for you. Apple acquired Shazam in 2018, removing ads for all ...

Apple today announced that music recognition tool Shazam has identified more than 100 billion songs since it launched. Shazam started as an SMS service in the U.K. in 2002, and it became one of the ...

Apple today launched a new Shazam Fast Forward 2025 website that will spotlight 50 music artists who are poised to have a breakthrough year. The list of artists will be revealed on a genre-by-genre ...

Shazam has been available as an app for the Apple Watch for a long time now, and this allows the wearable's users to identify songs with just a click straight from their wrists. However, users have to ...

Apple has confirmed its acquisition of Shazam is now complete, nine months after it was first announced. The company’s first move will be to rid the music service, which is used more than 20 million ...

The wait for Apple to acquire a popular music-identification app is almost over. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac Apple has been trying to buy Shazam since last December, but the deal has been held up ...

Apple has today released an updated version of its popular Shazam music identification app including support for a feature that has been around since the arrival of iOS 16 in September of 2022. The ...

Apple acquired Shazam nearly seven years ago, and since then the music discovery service has had a number of integrations with Apple Music. The latest: a ‘Viral Chart’ playlist for Apple Music users ...

If you subscribe to either Spotify or Apple Music — which you probably do, given they’re by far and away the two most popular music streaming services — then Apple just quietly rolled out a sneaky ...

Discovering the new hype songs all over the internet would normally take a few steps on platforms, but Apple wants to change that on Apple Music and Shazam with the latest "Viral" playlist feature.

Instead of telling you what song was playing just now in the elevator, Apple's Shazam is once more looking into the future at who it calculates will be your next favorite. Shazam does know its stuff — ...