TAG, THEY'RE IT! SHAZAM'S BIGGEST MOVERS
Shazam users have made this week’s Biggest Movers list a stroll down memory lane as thumbs are getting the deets on songs 10, 20, even 50 years old.
Daft Punk’s 2001 track “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (Warner France) is the week’s greatest gainer thanks to the online creation of a "word clock" that displays the words being sung.
Hitting the half-century mark this week is Al Green’s perennial “Let’s Stay Together,” released by Hi Records back in the day and now in the hands of Fat Possum.
On this week in 1985, meanwhile, Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” (Sire then, Warner now) peaked at #2. The video hit 100m views on YouTube this past week.
Nine years ago, Banks released her first song, “Before I Ever Met You,” which found its way onto Zane Lowe’s BBC 1 show and then Grey’s Anatomy. The Harvest release appears in the Shazam USA Top 100 courtesy of a sync in the Hulu film Deep Water.
The one new track among the Biggest Movers comes from Japan, “Ichizu” by Sony’s King Gnu.
Def Jam U.K. rapper Potter Payper leads the greatest gainers list on the Shazam U.K. Top 100 with his “Gangsteritus.”
