Shazam is the most important new piece of data in music streaming...
6 min readNov 30, 2019
Do you Shazam? If so, you’re part of the more than one billion installed users of the audio and image app. Shazam was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee. It was sold to Apple in 2018 for $400 million. In 2019, Apple launched the “Shazam Discovery Top 50,” a weekly, global ranking of 50 artists that it describes as “on the…
