Apple Presents 'Viral Charts' On Shazam Music App

JAKARTA Shazam, an application that Appple acquired in 2017, launched a new feature. The music streaming platform can now display the metric of popular songs in real-time.

This new feature, called Shazam Viral Charts, takes advantage of data on the platform, including track search data every second. After that, the data is processed to display the latest music that is developing and is in great demand by the public.

Apple explained that this feature will notify users about the song that is going viral. After that, these songs will be displayed in the form of ratings based on their growth.

"The song upload uses Shazam's unique signal to perform songs that go viral in real time, then rank songs based on their weekly growth in the volume of Shazam," Apple explained in a statement received by VOI.

Shazam Viral Charts also not only tracks hits, but also captures the spectrum of how the song can become popular, such as because of streaming, important events, or because of other factors.

Apple hopes that Shazam Viral Charts can help users find new music. On the other hand, this feature will also help musicians or songrs reach more audiences in the future.

At Shazam Viral Charts, users can see popular songs every day, find popular songs overnight, local songs that skyrocket to the international market, to songs that have returned to popularity after several years or decades.

"Shazam Viral Charts offers a truly comprehensive and global display, with not only global charts, but also the available 42 national charts. Global charts rank the top 50 songs, while the national charts rank 25 songs," Apple explained.