Shazam!

www.concept-content-copy.com customer Shazam entertainment just went live with their new website.

This Uber-cool music recognition, tagging and web-community company rocks. When you hear a tune you love but don’t know who it’s by you can ‘Tag’ it by dialling 2580 on your mobile and pointing it towards the speakers. How cool? They instantly send you the answer plus the chance to buy the download or ringtone!

You can make your own Blog, and Myspace-style layout at their website to share and hear other music from likeminded lovers of the songs you love to hear. They also have some pretty neat promotions on free tagging, and a little birdie told me members might be in for much more than that if they sign up now. (Could it be hearing pre-release material?).

The tagging charts that represent the most popular tags are a powerful tool for the record companies, as they're relevant to what people are listening too and liking, and so, sites like Shazam will have some seriously cultured and forward-thinking ears to get opinions from on what’s likely to be hot or not.

As a listener too, it’s cool to be able to share and enjoy great music, whether it’s pre-release or 20 years old. And no doubt those same music biz execs will browse the reviews for any budding journalists and critics.

One of the projects I was instrumental in there on the concept side was the Music Discovery engine. This works like a ‘Cloud’ and clusters genres and similar music in a graphical format for lovers of any type of music to see what else they might like based on what other members have rated.

Head over to Shazam now and check it out!