Shazam is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and Cheddar News is sharing some notable firsts for the music discovery app from the first track to reach one million Shazams to the most Shazam-ed song ever.

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Music Discovery App Shazam Celebrates 20th Anniversary 

Oh yeah, welcome back everyone between Bells time now for a music moment and as you saw there, drake scoring his 30th top five songs on the billboard hot 100 last week. All thanks to that new single Staying Alive. He was previously tied with the Beatles who held the record for 64 years at 29 top five hits Ariel, that's right baker but that's not his only new record. Drake has also been named she's um all time most searched artist. The rapper holds the title as the top artist with 350 million. Chism's Staying Alive is just one of drake's songs but we can't get enough of so our favorites like one dance. Nice for what and laugh now cry later. However, can you guess which of drake's songs is shot. SaM the most take a listen strengthened all that I'm wishing for my friends. Oh that's a good one. Love that one. Oh yeah, that's right. One dance is his most sought after track over 17 million. Sam's bigger. I was singing along during that song by the way, one of my favorite drink songs averages um, sharing the milestone. I was part of the 20th anniversary of the surfaces launch was just crazy to think about for those somehow unfamiliar with SAM. It's that platform that makes identifying music easy and accessible. So when you know a song is playing in the background but you can't figure out what it is. Ah enter in. She's um, now she's on post over 225 million global, monthly users but it's been quite a journey for the little music identifying at that could 20 years ago. The first ever shot SAm song was jeep stir by T rex wow, it was probably 20 years ago that I heard that song now while Gypsy was first shot, SAM song cleaning out my closet by Eminem was the first track to reach 1000 Chism's. So let's look at some other notable first Shall we have a Tiktok by Kesha. That was the first track to reach one million Chism's. Somebody that I used to know by Gautier was the first track to reach 10 million exams. And what about prayer and see by Robin Schulz. That was the radio edit. It was the first track to reach 20 million exams. and the first artist to hit one million was is it, is it the one and only? Little wayne? That song slaps every time he reached one million exams in 2009 and went on to another major milestone as the first artist to reach 10 million exams. Only two years after that. Yeah, and so in May 2015, David Guetta was also the first artist to hit 100 million exams. Hey Mama Pelican and bang my head. Just a few hits of his songs release just that year. All right, so let's get back to drake here Ariel because as drake is the motions and artist of all time. He actually doesn't even hold the top hip hop rap shows. Um, song can't Hold Us by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis actually takes that title. Meanwhile, the top pop song is Let Her Go by passenger. The top R and B. Soul song is All of Me by john Legend. And the top alternative song is Dance Monkey, which by the way, the most awesome song ever, 41 million shares arms on that song, which makes a lot of sense because for a lot of us we've never heard that artist before. So that makes a lot of sense why you would want to be like, who is that? I'm constantly and that was one of the ones I was actually doing. So that makes sense. And today the app has a lot more firepower by behind it. After being acquired by Apple for 400 million in september 2018. Apple's vice president of Apple music at the time, saying quote with a shared love of music and innovation. We are thrilled to bring our teams together to provide users even more great ways to discover experience and enjoy music. A few years later, the apps are passed one billion Chism's per month in May of this year. It exceeded two billion lifetime installs. I'm telling you baker, I am actually kind of like very much attached to his app. I'm constantly jamming to the point where it's like annoying. I'm in response just like holding it up to the speaker, but it's such a great invention. I mean it's, it's it's something that I think has definitely kind of changed the music and industry as well going forward because you know, you're able to kind of get a song quickly and then relate to it and then having your playlist so quickly. It's also impressive because very little apps have staying power for 20 plus years. I mean a lot of us have been on social media platforms for maybe close to that long, but like that's about it. No app sort of has that staying power, which has also led to a lot of people think, why can't you make a sham for other things? For videos, for a person you see on the street that you're like, I forgot that person's name or like celebrities you might see and you're like who is that celebrity? And I mean the shows um sort of idea could basically be spawned into so many different things and that's why we need it. You're brilliant speaker. I think you're honest with this. I think you just need to hire the right tech people to help me make this