Shazam is approaching its 10th anniversary and has recently reached a number of key milestones. It now has 75m users across 200 countries and, between them, they have tagged more than 1bn songs.

Initially offering music-recognition service to mobile-phone users who dialled its 2-5-8-0 shortcode, Shazam has since evolved to ride the app wave, find a place on every major mobile platform and on more than 350 mobile networks around the world.

Currently Shazam is adding a staggering 750,000 new ...