Look out, Spotify: Shazam has joined the Viral Chart competition.
Today, the music discovery app launched Shazam Viral Charts, which uses the platform’s data to offer fans an accurate, comprehensive peek at the fastest-growing songs worldwide.
The charts offer a comprehensive, worldwide view, showcasing a global chart as well as charts from 42 different countries, including Australia. The Shazam Viral Charts will contain 50 songs, while the national charts will rank 25 songs.
The playlist will be updated daily on Shazam and Apple Music (which owns Shazam) and showcase songs going viral in real-time. Tracks will then be ranked by their weekly growth in Shazam searches, tracking the songs making waves on social media and in the television series and films you watch.
In addition to compiling the songs, the Viral Charts will outline how songs are catapulted into the spotlight and then platform the fastest-moving songs across the globe.
Songs including Doechii’s Anxiety, an old song that’s been re-released after finding fame on TikTok, and Nothing From Nothing by Billy Preston (which featured on the White Lotus season three finale) are two examples of songs that have captured the public’s attention through unconventional, unexpected pathways. Shazam is looking to capitalise on those avenues and provide all the songs people are looking for in the same place.
According to a press release, the app’s year-end Top 100 of 2024 contained 31 songs released in 2022. Songs have found a new lease of life through remixes, TikTok, and major returns to the spotlight. Some of those songs included Natasha Bedingfield’s 2004 hit Unwritten and Lady Gaga’s 2011 track Bloody Mary.
In addition to those older songs, last year’s chart was packed with viral songs, such as Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things and i like the way you kiss me by Artemas being just two examples.
The Shazam Viral Charts will give listeners the opportunity to listen to viral songs, new and old, in one place. The chart will be updated daily, showcasing artists who find overnight fame, local artists growing in streams, and classic hits returning to the public consciousness.
You can listen to the Shazam Viral Charts on Shazam and Apple Music.
