UPDATED 12:26 EDT / JUNE 22 2011

Shazam Scores $32M and Will Blow Out Your Speakers.

Ever hear a song that is playing and can’t identify the artist or title?  Shazam is a popular mobile application which allows you to hold a cell phone up to a speaker.   After raising $32 million in funding, it’s time to attack television.

Shazam, the application that lets you identify nearly any piece of recorded music by holding your smartphone within earshot of a speaker, is swinging for the fences: the company has just raised a new $32 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners, with participation from DN Capital,” reports TechCrunch.

Shazam surged to popularity on the iPhone and is now also available on Android, Java, BlackBerry, Windows, and Symbian, and has been used by nearly 150 million people since the application launched. And its growth isn’t showing any signs of waning: the company says that it’s seen weekly installs double over the course of the last year, and that users are now tagging four million songs per day.

The big draw is having one application which can identify content spanning both music and television.  Applications such as IntoNow and GetGlue provide a similar gateway with entertainment. The potential for the best user experience lies with Shazam having the most traction.

Lots of constant monitoring involved with applications that do the same thing. I don’t use IntoNow or GetGlue.  Shazam has a solid growth that will suit any needs I’d have in the future.

 


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