Announced a few days ago, Shazam is now letting superstar artists share with their followers which songs they’ve recently listened to. With a combined 600 million followers on Shazam, the starting roster of DJs, producers & singers will help the company launch its new feature, and help their own respective fans discover new music. Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park had this to say:
“Shazam is one of my favorite ways to discover music. I’m excited for the next step in its evolution, and happy that Fort Minor and Linkin Park can play a role.”
Below is the announcement video for the new feature, with EDM artists Calvin Harris, Avicii & Alesso kicking it off.
And here is the starting roster of artists that’ll share with their fans their own discoveries.
- Pitbull – 44.7m Followers
- Calvin Harris – 42.0m Followers
- Avicii – 41.4m Followers
- Maroon 5 – 30.2m Followers
- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – 29.4m Followers
- Jason Derulo – 28.7m Followers
- OneRepublic – 27.7m Followers
- Wiz Khalifa – 27.1m Followers
- Imagine Dragons – 25.3m Followers
- Coldplay – 22.9m Followers
- Usher – 20.9m Followers
- Robin Thicke – 20.1m Followers
- Enrique Iglesias – 20m Followers
- Clean Bandit – 18.6m Followers
- One Direction – 17.6m Followers
- Linkin Park – 14.0m Followers
- Alicia Keys – 13.6m Followers
- Meghan Trainor – 13.5m Followers
- Tove Lo – 12.4m Followers
- Alesso – 11.8m Followers
- Shakira – 11.7m Followers
- Selena Gomez – 11.0m Followers
- Mariah Carey – 10.3m Followers
- YG – 9.8m Followers
- Fall Out Boy – 8.3m Followers
- Shaggy – 7.3m Followers
- Pearl Jam – 6.1m Followers
- Zac Brown Band – 4.2m Followers
- Fifth Harmony – 3.7m Followers
- Nick Jonas – 3.6m Followers
- Hunter Hayes – 3.5m Followers
- Adam Lambert – 3.1m Followers