Apple has published a new website called Shazam Fast Forward 2025 comprising lists of 50 music artists predicted to have a breakthrough year.
Shazam Fast Forward 2025 now available
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Apple announces Shazam just zoomed past 100 billion song recognitions
Apple has announced that the Shazam music recognition service has surpassed over 100 billion song recognitions since its inception.
Shazam for iPhone now supports Apple’s new Music Haptics feature in iOS 18
The Shazam mobile app for iPhone now supports Apple’s Music Haptics feature in iOS 18 that plays vibrations and taps set to a song’s beat.
How to fix My Shazam Tracks playlist not updating automatically
Learn what to do if the "My Shazam Tracks" playlist on Apple Music or Spotify is not updating automatically with your newest recognized songs.
The Shazam app gains background listening via Live Activities to identify songs in other apps from the lockscreen
Apple has updated the standalone Shazam app it acquired in 2017 with support for background listening via Live Activities and Dynamic Island.
How to use Shazam to identify songs on any device
Discover all the different ways to identify which song is playing around you or in a YouTube clip, Instagram Reel, TikTok video, or elsewhere using Shazam on your iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Apple Watch, HomePod, Mac, Windows PC, and even the web!
macOS Sonoma 14.2 integrates Shazam into the Control Center, like on iPhone
macOS Sonoma 14.2 lets you recognize songs and view a history of identified songs in your Mac's Control Center without using the dedicated app.
Apple-owned Shazam gains a new Concerts feature
Shazam for iPhone can now recommend tour dates based on your location and music preferences, with and Android update featuring Concerts to follow later.
The Shazam app can now identify songs in apps like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
The Apple-owned Shazam app has been updated with the ability to recognize songs playing in any app, including TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
Shazam now lets you open classical songs in the Apple Music Classical app
You can send any song you Shazam or surface in search to the Apple Music Classical app, where you can access additional information about the piece.
You can now Shazam music directly from Android’s home screen
Shazam for Android has updated its home screen widget. With it, you can now identify music playing around you without ever launching the app.
New in iOS 16: Siri-identified songs now sync with Control Center and Shazam app
Songs identified using Siri are now listed in the Music Recognition widget within the iPhone's Control Center and in the Shazam app's library.