Using the tagging feature, the user records a song for 10 seconds and the application finds the song from a catalogue of audio fingerprints in a database.
Gotye's single became the first song ever to pass the 1million-tag mark in a single week and has become the most 'Shazamed' song ever, having been tagged by users 11.5million times.
Shazam's average conversion rate of tags to download-purchases is 8-10%, meaning that more than 1m downloads of the song were likely to ...
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