{"id":5597,"date":"2018-12-18T21:57:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/shazam-reveals-2018s-most-searched-songs\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T21:57:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:57:46","slug":"shazam-reveals-2018s-most-searched-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/shazam-reveals-2018s-most-searched-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Shazam reveals 2018’s most-searched songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Clean Bandit and Demi Lovato had the most-Shazamed song of 2018
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In a world full of smart devices, self-driving cars and voice assistants, Shazam is the closest technology comes to actual magic.<\/p>\n

The software allows you to hold your phone up to a speaker and answer the age-old question, “what is this song and who’s it by?” without the humiliation of having to ask the DJ.<\/p>\n

And in 2018 the answer, most frequently, was “Solo by Clean Bandit”.<\/p>\n

The song, which features US star Demi Lovato, was tagged 9.1 million times.<\/p>\n

That’s half a million more than the second most searched-for song, X by Nicky Jam and J Balvin.<\/p>\n

British artists performed five of Shazam’s top 10 songs, with Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa and newcomer Tom Walker all making the chart.<\/p>\n

Anne-Marie and Marshmello’s hit single Friends was also the most searched-for track in a single day, racking up 800,000 tags on 8 April.<\/p>\n

The peak in curiosity came a full two months after the song was released, illustrating how slowly songs filter into the public consciousness in the streaming era.<\/p>\n