Shazam has now identified 100,000,000,000 songs. That’s 100 BILLION.

Shazam, the magical app (now owned by Apple), “listens” to a song and then tells you who’s singing and the name of the song (Well, most of the time. But it hits more than it whiffs).

It has just hit a new milestone: Shazam has answered 100 billion song queries with answers since it was launched in 2002. That works out to about 12 songs per person on the planet. To put things another way, if you could use Shazam to identify a song per second, it would take 3,168 years to reach 100 billion.

Shazam began as a text service in the UK on dumbphones. For it to work, the user dialed 2580 and then held the phone up so it could hear the music. Once the song was identified, the user would get a text. It moved to app and launched on the Apple App Store in 2008. It took until 2011 for the service to ID 1 billion songs. And here we are.

Shazam averages about 2.6 billion tags a month from 300 million monthly active users.