>, they don't shazam hits they know, or songs about to be hits, but they shazam that random song they can't identify -- not sure that's an indicator of hit'ness

>, they don't shazam hits they know, or songs about to be hits, but they shazam that random song they can't identify -- not sure that's an indicator of hit'ness. One of the Shazam folks gave a 10 minute presentation at O'Reilly conference.[1] She gave an example of how early Shazam datapoints correctly predicted that Katy Perry's song would beat Lady Gaga's song. (The singles were released at the same time.) Perhaps she was cherry picking clear correlations but it doesn't seem too far fetched that the early trends it sees from users is a reliable prediction of a future Billboard chart position and sales. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcTPvxo8SXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcTPvxo8SXY deep link at 3:32 that compares KP and LG: https://youtu.be/mcTPvxo8SXY?t=3m31s https://youtu.be/mcTPvxo8SXY?t=3m31s