Shazam rides high, reaching 100 billion song recognitions

Shazam was created in the late 1990s. — Shazam/AFP Relaxnews

Shazam was originally an SMS music recognition service. It is now one of the most widely used mobile applications in the world. And the service has reached a new milestone in its history by reaching 100 billion song recognitions.

That's equivalent to every person on Earth identifying 12 pieces of music with Shazam. Otherwise, a single person would have to identify one song on the app every second for 3,168 years to reach 100 billion. This figure is all the more impressive given that it has increased significantly since the summer of 2011. Back then, more than a billion tracks had been recognised on Shazam.