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Apple Music could get a boost from Shazam, the company's newest addition

Apple Music could get a boost from Shazam, the company's newest addition

Caroline Cakebread

11 Dec 2017, 20:5.                             


Apple's latest startup acquisition could give its music service a jolt. On Monday, Apple officially announced it was buying Shazam, maker of a popular music-recognition app. It's not hard to understand why the iPhone maker might have been interested in Shazam. As we can see in this chart from Statista, users of the company's app grew quickly up to 2015, and were expected to have doubled to 1 billion between 2014 and 2016.

Apple has been cagey about its plans for the app. But Shazam has been known tospur music downloads, and it's a good bet the tech giant will try to use the app and its data to boost Apple Music.
Tech chart of the day — Shazam usersMike Nudelman
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