French music shines.
In any case, this is indicated by the ranking of the 100 most sought-after titles by Shazam, the application making it possible to obtain the name of a song and its artist thanks to a listening of a few seconds.
If the first place is occupied by the planetary
hit Dance Monkey
by Tones and I released in 2019, the second step of the podium belongs to the French of Lilly Wood And The Prick, composed of Nili Hadida and Benjamin Cotto and their song
Prayer in C
, published in 2010. It is more precisely the version remixed four years later by the German DJ Robin Schulz whose clip has accumulated 36 million views on YouTube.
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The bronze medal goes to
Let Her go
from Passenger.
You then have to go down to 30th position to find a little bit of France with
Daft Punk's
Get Lucky
and several times with hits from Parisian DJ Snake.
The rest of the rankings have globally the biggest hits of the last 5-10 years with the much appreciated Ed Sheeran who just like The Weeknd manages to place four titles, followed by Sia and Justin Bieber with three songs.
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Despacito
and his 7 billion views on YouTube only point to 38th place, while
Baby Shark
, the most viewed video of all time on the platform does not appear in the rankings.
Finally,
Ride It
de Regard finished its race in the last but still 100th position.