Shazam Launches ‘Viral’ Australia Chart

The tastes of music fans across Australia are captured and ranked by new charts published by Shazam, a subsidiary of Apple Music.

The music recognition platform today (May 8th) launches its Shazam Viral Charts, which feature a Global top 50 frame and scores of country tallies, including the Top 200 Australia and separate top 50 charts for the five metro centres: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.

Also, the charts are searchable by genre (dance, hip-hop/rap, pop).

The new charts aim to “capture the fastest-moving songs around the globe,” reads a statement, and use signals unique to Shazam to surface songs going viral in real time. Those songs are then ranked by their weekly growth in Shazam volume.

Leading the first Top 200 Australia frame is Alex Warren’s current ARIA Chart leader “Ordinary”, ahead of Australian EDM star CYRIL and maryjo’s “Still Into You” and Lola Young’s “Messy”, respectively.

Doechii’s “Anxiety”, which interpolates Gotye and Kimbra’s 2011 hit “Somebody That I Used to Know”, comes in at No. 5.

At a glance, music fans have differing tastes in each major city. “Still Into You” is the top song in Adelaide, Fontaines D.C.’s “Starburster” is the hottest track in Perth, while “Ordinary” dominates on the east coast.

Updating daily, users can see and listen to the trending tunes, breakout songs that “launch an artist to overnight fame, local gems recently skyrocketing to global fame, and catalog hits returning to the charts for another round, decades after release,” reads a statement.

The rollout follows the launch in 2021 of Apple Music’s top 25 city charts.

Apple announced it would acquire Shazam for roughly US$400 million in December 2017, with the deal being completed the following September. The purchase caught the attention of the European Commission, but was ultimately approved.

Check out the Shazam Viral Charts on Apple Music and Shazam.