Now that we’ve quantified Shazam’s track record of predicting hits, including its positives and its possible pitfalls, here are three specific recommendations on how to use Shazam alongside your new music research and other music popularity measures in your programming arsenal: 1) Use Shazam to spot potential hits that are on the edges of your … Continue reading Three Tips for Effectively Using Shazam
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How Shazam Can Help You Predict Hits: Part 3 In our previous post, we spotlighted the styles of songs Shazam can consistently help you predict. Now, let’s examine situations where Shazam may not give you a heads up on tomorrow’s hits. Songs that are typically pure Pop CHR, especially by established artists While Shazam has … Continue reading Which Hits Shazam Doesn’t Spot Early
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How Shazam Can Help You Predict Hits: Part 2 In our last post, we examined Shazam’s track record of predicting hits, finding that 94% of the songs that rise to Shazam’s Top 10 ultimately become at least Top 30 hits. However, we also found a wide variation in exactly how early Shazam can spot tomorrow’s … Continue reading Which Hits Shazam Can Help You Spot Early
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How Shazam Can Help You Predict Hits:Part 1 How good is Shazam at predicting hits? When Shazam® emerged a few years ago, radio programmers quickly saw its potential as a hit-predicting oracle, and since then Shazam has grown so large that Mediabase® recently added market-specific Shazam data. Shazam has a vested interest in fostering the … Continue reading How Shazam Can Help You Predict Hits
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