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Sia‘s ‘Cheap Thrills’ was the most Shazamed track of 2016. Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ ‘This Girl’ and ‘Stressed Out’ by Twenty One Pilots also made the Top Five while Justin Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’ came in at Number 10.
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It was also revealed that Drake was the most Shazamed artist overall. Coldplay’s ‘Hymn For The Weekend’ was named the most Shazamed rock track – and The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’, came out on top in R&B.
Since it was launched, Shazam’s been downloaded more than one billion times, and gets used around 20 million times a day, reports BBC Newsbeat.
The most Shazamed tracks of the year are:
Sia – ‘Cheap Thrills’
Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners – ‘This Girl’
Alan Walker – ‘Faded’
Mike Posner – ‘I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)’
Twenty One Pilots – ‘Stressed Out’
Lukas Graham – ‘7 Years’
The Chainsmokers Feat. Daya – ‘Don’t Let Me Down’
Imany – ‘Don’t Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix)’
DNCE – ‘Cake By The Ocean’
Justin Bieber – ‘Love Yourself’
If you didn’t know, Shazam is a mobile app that you use to record a song you are hearing that you don’t know. Shazam will find out what the song you are hearing is.
The app was founded in 1999 and has hundreds of millions of users worldwide who use the service to identify songs through the means of their smartphone. There have been over 25 billion Shazam searches since its launch as a mobile app.
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