Shazam unveils 2024 Predictions & Top Artists to Watch, featuring Bloody Civilian

With its 300 million global monthly users and millions of daily song recognitions from around the world, Shazam’s unique ability to accurately predict the next breaking artist is unparalleled and has become a reliable and invaluable tool for both artists and fans over the years.

Today, Shazam unveiled its annual Predictions 2024 playlist, a 50-track selection of artists that are perfectly poised to have a breakthrough year. Additionally, Shazam spotlighted five artists from the list who have the potential to break out globally in 2024 and five artists who are gaining popularity regionally. 

Based on Shazam’s uniquely predictive data and algorithms, and coupled with the expertise of Apple Music’s global editorial team, this incredible selection of artists show early indicators of future growth — early and consistent momentum in Shazam activity, as well as discovery trends in more than one country. It’s a remarkably global and diverse bunch, hailing from 21 countries and spanning sounds from French pop to contemporary gospel.

Last year’s predictions list was the most successful so far, with 80% of the artists reaching Apple Music’s Daily Top 100 in 2023, across 171 countries worldwide, and 7 of the 50 artists peaking in Shazam’s Global Top 200. These included Stephen Sanchez peaking at No. 6 in January 23, Ice Spice also hitting No. 6 in March 2023, and Young Miko reaching No. 58 in April 2023. 13 of them also made the Top 10 of Shazam’s national charts, including Ice Spice (in 53 charts), Stephen Sanchez (44 charts), Hotel Ugly (28 charts), Ski Aggu (17 charts), Young Miko (12 charts) and ANGEL DIOR (11 charts). On average, Shazam’s class of 2023 Predictions artists had a 167% year-on-year increase in Shazams compared to 2022.

Check out Shazam’s artists to watch below and listen to the full Shazam 2024 Predictions playlist on Apple Music.