Shazamers' Blog

As the Winter months are starting to fade away and Spring begins to creep back into our lives, so the influx of music festivals are once again thrust upon us as we begin to make plans for the Summer.

Today the line-up for the Parklife Weekender 2013 was announced and it is looking extremely tempting if we don’t say so ourselves. Based in Manchester and brought to you by the team behind the infamous Warehouse Project, the Parklife Weekender is a festival that has slowly been growing in size and popularity over the past few years and looking at this year’s line up it is going to be one of this year’s festival highlights. 2013 will see the likes of Plan B, Rita Ora and Johnny Marr playing alongside rising stars such as Jessie Ware, TNGHT and AlunaGeorge. Not only do they have a stellar live band line-up but Parklife are also playing host to some of electronic music’s finest DJs such as Benga, Jamie Jones, Julio Bashmore & Boys Noize.

Head over to www.parklife.uk.com for more information & get your wellies at the ready!

Simon Edwards News

Are you ready for the UK’s biggest music night? Yup – it’s The Brit Awards, and this year UK viewers – you can Shazam the show to experience more.

• Tag live performances and link to artists’ track pages
• If you’re using an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch check back after midnight and download the performances from iTunes.
• Check out nominees, and for the top categories – see if Shazam predicts the winners

With Robbie Williams, Muse, One Direction and Justin Timberlake performing, and James Corden resuming his host duties, it’s going to be an awesome music night.

So next Wednesday, grab your friends, have Shazam at the ready, and tune into ITV at 8pm.

Enjoy!

The Shazam Team

LeeMc News

Shazam’s tagging data accurately predicted the majority of winners at last night’s Grammys ceremony, including a whopping three of the four top awards, three of the five genre performance categories and four of the seven best songs by genre!

The science behind the Shazam app tracked the nominated tracks during the voting period, giving an amazing insight into how popular these songs were and letting Shazam predict who the winners would be. The results show that in the majority of cases, the songs that were most tagged with Shazam in each award category correlated with those that took home a Grammy.

Check out the interesting stats below, as revealed by Shazam’s data;
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Jon Davies News

Out of all the rock bands from the early 90’s, few seemed likely to reform as Dinosaur Jr. After original member – and Sebadoh frontman – Lou Barlow was kicked out of the band in 1989, Dinosaur Jr released a number of albums through the 90’s before disbanding in 1997. After years of bitter and public swipes at each other, in 2005 original members J Mascis, Barlow and drummer Murph reunited for a tour and have been working together since; releasing three albums ‘Beyond’ (2007), ‘Farm’ (2009) and last year’s ‘I Bet On Sky’.

Their latest album is a hook laden collection of tracks that showcase a slightly calmer side to Dinosaur Jr, which is a natural progression for a band that originally got together in the mid eighties. Songs such as ‘Watch The Corners’ easily rank alongside the finest moments in their back catalogue and the rambunctious ‘Pierce The Morning Rain’ shows they can still show the garage rock kids of 2013 how it’s done.

We spoke to bassist Lou in the middle of their UK tour about the reformation, plans for a new album and their thoughts on consuming music through streaming.

Read more…

Jon Davies News

Heads up US music fans! Use Shazam to tag any Swedish House Mafia between now and March 8th for a chance to WIN 2 tickets to see them perform LIVE in Miami on March 24th! Big thanks to ABSOLUT. Full details are here :www.absolutshazam.com

LeeMc News

Experience more of Sunday’s Music Award Show with Shazam. Tag anytime during the show to:

• See the Nominees, Performers, Winners and buy their music
• Listen to music from performing artists
• Check out Red Carpet photos
• Get bonus content
• Check out the beauty hub and polls
• Follow the Tweets

Tune in Sunday, Feb 10 8/7c and get ready to tag!

The Shazam Team

LeeMc News

Lynx is going where only the elite few have gone before, giving fans the ultimate out-of-this-world experience: a trip to space.

Shazamers in the UK and Ireland can tag Lynx’s new “Apollo” TV Ad, for a chance to compete for one of the 22 tickets to travel into space on a flight with international space agency – Space Expedition Corporation (SXC).

So for your chance to be the first Shazamer to reach the final frontier, tag the Lynx Apollo TV Ad, running (till April) on all major commercial TV stations.

LeeMc News

• Pre Game
• In Game
• Shazam-enabled TV Ads
• Halftime Show

LeeMc News

From 26 December – 6 January, you and your friends can download one free gift every day—songs, apps, books, films and more—when you get the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas app. Each day’s gift will only be available for download for 24 hours, so hurry and get the 12 Days of Christmas app here to make sure you don’t miss out!

It’s a free app, available for everyone  with an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad in the following countries:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,  Japan, Laos, Lativa, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, Venezuela, and Vietnam.

*Please note the 12 Days App is currently not available in the US.

LeeMc News

Exciting news for Dr Oz fans. Tune in Tuesday December 18^th onwards and tag the show to unlock exclusive content like:

• Favorite healthy recipes
• Exclusive video
• Links to the Dr. Oz website; and
• A link to Ask Dr. Oz about your health and wellbeing questions

Dr. Oz is syndicated nationwide and features great tips on healthy living and wellness, including information on nutrition, beauty, diet and weight loss, fitness and other issues.  To find out when and where to watch Dr. Oz visit www.DoctorOz.com.

LeeMc News