Artist: Shazam

Aprovechándose tal vez de nuestros impulsos consumistas, Shazam aumenta la compra de música por parte de los usuarios que lo usan. Así lo confirma el vicepresidente ejecutivo de la compañía, David Jones, en unas declaraciones que recoge Digital Music News . De entre los datos que aporta Jones, cabe destacar el de que, a día de hoy, 1 de cada 14 canciones descargadas de manera legal -es decir, compradas- proceden directamente de usuarios de Shazam. Aunque de este servicio os pueden contar más detalles nuestros compañeros de [...]

Who's responsible for keeping the music industry afloat at the moment? Young hip things buying vinyl ? TV shows featuring hot new bands ? Or perhaps music discovery app, Shazam ? Well, it's just been announced that Shazam increase download sales revenue by an astounding $300m each year. This means that, as Music Week and Digital Music News  note, the platform is responsible for roughly 1 in 14 digital downloads. And that's not taking into consideration the physical purchases they may influence. The company's executive, David Jones said of the news and Shazam's [...]

I've never been a top 40 kind of guy.  I like music much more obscure that than what you'd find in Billboard   magazine or the checkout line at Starbucks. And so I am continually amazed by how much music Shazam -the smartphone app- can identify.  I've already written on how Shazam-available as a free app on iPhones and probably on Samsung and other platforms-can help failing memories identify cuts you hear on the radio that you know but have forgotten the name of, as well as new and unfamiliar songs, even [...]

By groove@algarvecentral.net I've never been a top 40 kind of guy.  I like music much more obscure that than what you'd find Source: Groove 2U

You've probably heard by now that Beatport was bought out by Robert Sillerman's SFX Entertainment for a reported $50 million earlier this week. It's a major move for a company that has acquired several key electronic music promotion and live event companies over the last couple of months. Beatport, however, is the first stake SFX has claimed in the realm of digital music sales and other media-focused ventures. Sillerman explained that because Beatport is the source for DJs and millions of 18-34 year-old users (many of whom do not [...]

http://pdf.reuters.com/htmlnew s/8knews.asp?i=43059c3bf0e3754 1&u=urn:newsml:reuters.com:201 30206:nBw065906a Gives music fans best discovery experience in the industry, adding millions of tracks to Shazam`s 25M+ database LONDON--(Business Wire)-- Shazam, the world`s leading media engagement company, today announces an exclusive new partnership with Beatport, the world`s largest DJ and dance music community. The new partnership will enable Shazam to greatly expand the number of dance tracks in its database, giving fans an unparalleled way to discover, explore, buy and share the club music that they love when they`re out with their friends. http://mms.businesswire.com/bw apps/mediaserver/ViewMedia?mgi d=357280&vid=4 "Shazam is incredibly excited to form this exclusive partnership with Beatport because Beatport [...]

http://pdf.reuters.com/htmlnew s/8knews.asp?i=43059c3bf0e3754 1&u=urn:newsml:reuters.com:201 30206:nBw065906a Gives music fans best discovery experience in the industry, adding millions of tracks to Shazam`s 25M+ database LONDON--(Business Wire)-- Shazam, the world`s leading media engagement company, today announces an exclusive new partnership with Beatport, the world`s largest DJ and dance music community. The new partnership will enable Shazam to greatly expand the number of dance tracks in its database, giving fans an unparalleled way to discover, explore, buy and share the club music that they love when they`re out with their friends. http://mms.businesswire.com/bw apps/mediaserver/ViewMedia?mgi d=357280&vid=4 "Shazam is incredibly excited to form this exclusive partnership with Beatport because Beatport [...]

Dozens of startups are searching for the holy grail of music discovery leading to purchase and many thousands of artists and labels are hoping they'll find it. Other than perhaps YouTube, no one is currently doing it better than Shazam. Shazam says users are tagging 10 million songs, shows and ads a day. They're also buying what they've tagged.  Clicking through to digital stores like iTunes and Amazon MP3, Shazam users are buying $300 million worth a year. The vast majority is music, says the company. TV, films and apps are a small but growing percentage. [...]

Shazam the track ID recognition app has been growing steadily over the last year, currently reaching 275 million users . The concept is simple - activate the smartphone app and it will record the music playing in background and quickly tell you the name of the track by matching the sound to the 25 million song database. Brilliant.  Yesterday, Shazam announced that it will be adding the whole Beatport catalogue to it's database. The concept is supersmart, above all business-wise for Beatport. When you, the DJ is playing in [...]

We've all been there: you and your friends are having the time of your lives at the show you've been thinking about for weeks when the DJ drops an unfamiliar track that sends you into a dancing frenzy. In an attempt to figure out the name of the song, you whip out Shazam and anxiously tap "Touch to Shazam," only to receive a familiar, tormenting message: "We couldn't find a match." Well torment no more. Ben Sisario of The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Shazam, the world's most popular song identifier application, has [...]

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The music lovers favourite website,  Beatport, and the popular application Shazam have teamed up, expanding Shazam's already huge database of music. Shazam is arguably the most ingenious application on any smart phone, as you are granted the ability to record the sound of an unknown song and be given the title and artist. Its pretty damn cool really. For those of you living under a rock, Shazam gives reason to people lifting their smart phones in the air when music is playing at a club, a [...]

Grosse annonce du côté de Shazam aujourd'hui ! La société titulaire de l'application mobile du même nom vient d'annoncer un partenariat avec Beatport, la plus grosse plateforme de téléchargement légale de musique électronique. La totalité du catalogue du site (soit environ un et demi million de morceaux) s'ajoutera à la base de données de Shazam composée de plus de 25 millions de morceaux. Il sera donc désormais beaucoup plus facile de découvrir ou de retrouver vos morceaux de musique électronique favoris, très bonne nouvelle si vous utilisez l'application au quotidien ! [...]

Good news dance music junkies: Shazam-ing just got easier. According to the  New York Times   Media Decoder blog, the popular song identification app has struck a deal with Beatport that will expand its current database by 1.5 million songs. Shazam currently boasts 275 million users (175 million more than its strongest competitor, SoundHound), and the company's director of music and content, Jeff Mills, explained to the NYT  that dance music continues to become more and more popular on the app, making up for 31 of the 100 most tagged songs in 2012. [...]

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IT'S PLAIN that rapper Serengeti is a talented man. The C.A.R album was one of the highlights of the year's hip hop output, especially album closer Uncle Traum which was one of my most-played tracks of 2012. But in case "married, mustachioed and middle-aged rapper" Serengeti has passed you by so far, you can grab yourself a free mp3 download of Shazam! here - Serengeti - Shazam.mp3

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Covers. Cover songs, that is. I've talked about them before . Right. So I won't go on and on over the bits I've mentioned then. Hopefully I don't repeat myself very often. Here's something new. I think. I am big Shazamer. Wherever I am: car, shops, grocery...if I hear an unknown song and have my trusty iPhone, it's happening. What a miracle, that Shazam. At any rate, post-identification, when I'm back in my bunker, an internet search follows. I want to hear the song again and anything else by said artist. This, of course, gets me sucked [...]

Firstly, I would like to “publish” a short essay that recently struck a chord with me. It was written by my brother Emmanuel Rizzi, a contributor to Cornell University’s The Diplomacist blog. Here goes: Why the Music-Artist envies the Literature-Artist What luck has the Literature-Artist to have an individual spectatorship! ...

So it's been a while since my last Spotifried Playlist feature and it is a New Year's Resolution of mine to do more of them this year. There is nothing more important to me than music and, in turn there is nothing more important than a great playlist that I can give to others who can in turn learn about and love new music too. I put a lot of time, effort and love into my Spotifried playlists and, what might seem like an easy task can often take me days, weeks and even months worth [...]

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm . One reason people love Music ID apps is their immediacy: You hold your phone up in the air, tag a song, and then you know, more or less immediately, what that song is. This is one of the most magical things our modern phones can do — but even the old, dumb phones from ten years ago could do it, by essentially leaving Shazam a voicemail and getting a text message in return. Today, audio fingerprinting usage has [...]

Days after naming it's most tagged songs of 2012 , popular music id app, Shazam is predicting which artists it expects to make headlines in 2013.  Using tags as a leading indicator of fan interest, Shazam analyzed internet hype and other public data alongside its own stats to indicate which acts are trending. Shazam's Predictions For Top Emerging Artists Of 2013 : ( descriptions via Shazam ) French Montana – an American Moroccan rapper, his collaboration with Rick [...]