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Re:Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say by mirkules on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:01PM (#15884217)
In the early 2000s, I used to work a relatively large music company (Album Network, later acquired by Clear Channel) whole sole purpose in life was to make music charts of what's popular, and publish a monthly magazine/charts of the hottest artists.

Point being is that music charts are BIG business, and remain so to this day. I'm not at all surprised to hear that this has spread to brick and mortar stores. IIRC Starbucks has an in-house music curation department.

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Re:Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say by ghaff on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:42AM (#15884502)
Shortly before MP3 players made the whole concept silky, Starbucks had some sort of pilot going with HP to let people burn custom discs at some sort of kiosk in Starbucks stores. So they’ve long been playing around with music-related stuff.
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