The following year he released his second single ‘Firestone’, which was an immediate success. The song was streamed 700 million times on YouTube and 715 million times on Spotify, as of 2 January 2020

— Kygo (@KygoMusic) March 23, 2020

Since then, the first song released was “Like it is” on and it was a collaboration with Tyga and Zara Larsson. The song was announced to be a Song of the Day in the official Shazam Twitter account.

#LikeItIs by @KygoMusic, @zaralarsson & @Tyga is our Song of the Day. Listen now on @AppleMusic: https://t.co/vxzLJOxNGb pic.twitter.com/5J4X9gnYmb

— Shazam (@Shazam) March 31, 2020

The following Friday, the next song of the album “I’ll Wait” was released. Four days after, the song has already been streamed five million times.

Kygo has a variety of collaborations with many different pop artists like Tom Odell, for the song “Fiction“, Angus & Julia Stone for the song “For What it’s Worth” and many more. All of these can be heard in his 2016 studio album “Cloud Nine“.

On April 17 the third song of the album was released and it featured English singer and songwriter, Zak Abel.

The song begins with the story of the journey both artist planned for shooting the song video on the Maldives. Since they both were in lockdown, this plan did not succeed.

However, a video for the song has been shot. It comprises short clips of the everyday life of the musicians. It also indicates that Kygo is working on new music.

The song ends with the quote “I guess the lesson is to try and make the best out of a difficult situation. Stay home. Stay safe.”

Shazam’s software allows users of smart phones to find out which song it is playing on the radio, just by holding their smart phone up to a speaker. 

For years the age old question has always been, “who sings this song?”, “what’s this song called?”, and we had no way of knowing the answer. Shazam is the answer to those prayers, and knows through its analysing technology the answer to those questions.

In 2018, Shazam revealed that the most searched for song of 2018 was Clean Bandit’s “Solo” featuring Demi Lovato. It was revealed to have been tagged 9.1 million times.

The second most popularly searched for song, was X by Nicky Jam and J Balvin, with Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa’s “One Kiss’ coming in at third place.

The company was bought by the giant Apple last year, for a reported $400m (£316m). Shazam had over 120 million users, and was one of the only music technology companies to be making a profit.

Apple has used its purchase of Shazam to get users over to their streaming service.

Ed Sheehan also proved popular in 2018 with his track “Perfect” coming in at the fifth most Shazamed song, and the number one song in Shazam’s global charts this year. “Perfect” had been at the top of the bill for nine weeks, as well as being the most shared song worldwide. Sheehan is the only artist to have claimed pop’s most Shazamed song of 2017 hit the number one spot in the same genre twice.

Shazam revealed that “Friends” by Marshmallow and Anne-Marie was 2018’s most Shazamed track in a day worldwide, on April 9th.  Drake was named as the most Shazamed artist of the year,  J Balvin was the second most popularly searched artist.

Top 10 Most Shazamed Songs

1. “Solo”, Clean Bandit Feat. Demi Lovato
2. “X”, Nicky Jam & J Balvin
3. “One Kiss”, Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa
4. “In My Mind”, Dynoro & Gigi D’agostina
5. “Perfect”, Ed Sheehan
6. “Leave a Light On”, Tom Walker
7. “Girls Like You”, Maroon 5 Feat. Cardi B
8. “Friends”, Marshmallow & Anne-Marie
9. “Flames”, David Guetta & Sia
10. “I Like It”, Cardi B & Bad Bunny & J Balvin

Most Shazamed Songs by Genre

Country: “You Make It Easy”, Jason Aldean

Pop: “Perfect”, Ed Sheehan

Dance: “Solo”, Clean Bandit Feat. Demi Lovato

Hip-Hop: “I Like It”, Cardi B & Bad Bunny & J Balvin

Rock/Alt: “Feel It Still”, Portugal. The Man

K-Pop: “FAKE LOVE”, BTS

Latino: “X”, Nicky Jam & J Balvin

R&B: “Love Lies”, Khalid & Normani