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# Who Needs Shazam? Google Assistant App Adds Song Recognition
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/who-needs-shazam-google-assitant-app-adds-song-recognition/
- Published: 2017-11-07T07:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2017-11-07T07:55:00.000Z
- Description: Google has added song recognition to its Google Assistant app across all platforms. Ask Google Assistant “what song is this?” or “what song is playing?,” and it shows the song's name,. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2017/11/who-needs-shazam-google-assitant-app-adds-song-recogniti
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Tech, Streaming, Amazon, Apple, Apple Music, Google, music, Music Business, music industry, musician, musicians, Pandora, Spotify, Tech Stories, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:05

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Google has added song recognition to its Google Assistant app across all platforms. Ask Google Assistant “what song is this?” or “what song is playing?,” and it shows the song's name, the artist, lyrics, and links to YouTube, Google Play Music and Spotify. Move over Shazam… [![image from cdn.vox-cdn.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d2bbef6d970c-400wi "image from cdn.vox-cdn.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d2bbef6d970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)  
Music recognition had previously come to Google's Pixel 1 and Pixel 2 phones, but is now rolling out on all Google Assistant apps including iOS, Android and Google Home.