How to export your Shazam history
Shazam has no export button. Request your data at shazam.com/privacy or sync new finds to a My Shazam Tracks playlist. What each route gives you.
On this page
- What your Shazam history is and where it lives
- Route 1: request a copy of your Shazam data
- Route 2: sync your Shazams to a My Shazam Tracks playlist
- Route 3: share or copy songs one at a time
- What about shazam.com/myshazam?
- What to do with your Shazam list
- Clean the list first
- Sort it in batches
- Turn the keep list into a shopping list
- Stop the backlog coming back
- Doing this with CatchIt!
- Checklist
Shazam has no export button, in the app or on the web. What exists today are two documented routes and one slow manual one. For everything tied to your Shazam account, request a copy of your data: go to shazam.com/privacy, choose Download Your Data, sign in and enter an email address. Apple says the data arrives by email within 30 days, though it doesn't say what the file contains. For a list you can use straight away, turn on library sync in the Shazam app so identified songs are added to a My Shazam Tracks playlist in Apple Music or Spotify. For a handful of songs, share them one at a time. Once you have a list, the useful part starts: move it into one place and decide, track by track, what's worth buying.
What your Shazam history is and where it lives
Every song you identify in the Shazam app is saved to the app's Library. On an iPhone or iPad, that Library is tied to your Apple Account. On Android, it's tied to the Google or email account you sign in with. With iCloud sync on, songs you identify with Recognize Music in Control Center or with Siri on your other Apple devices end up in the same Library. If songs are missing from it, why your Shazam history isn't showing walks through the sync settings to check first.
The Library is good at one thing: remembering. It isn't built for working through years of finds. It has no way to mark a track as listened to, kept or rejected, and Apple's help pages describe no way to export it as a file. That's why DJs who have used Shazam for a long time often end up with hundreds of tracks they never went back to.
Here are the routes that exist today, and the job each one suits:
| Route | What you get | Covers old Shazams? | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data request on shazam.com/privacy | A copy of your Shazam account data, sent by email | It's your account data; Apple doesn't list the contents | Up to 30 days, according to Apple |
| My Shazam Tracks playlist sync | A playlist in Apple Music or Spotify that fills automatically | Not documented by Apple | Immediate for new songs |
| Sharing or copying songs one at a time | A link per song, or a line you type into your own list | Only the songs you pick | Slow for more than a handful |
Route 1: request a copy of your Shazam data
This is the route for a complete history, and it's the one Apple documents step by step.
- Go to shazam.com/privacy in a browser.
- Choose Download Your Data.
- Sign in with the account you use in Shazam. The sign-in page offers Apple, Google and email.
- Follow the prompts and enter the email address where you want the data sent.
- Click Send my data.
Apple's Android support page puts the timing plainly: "You'll receive your data by email within 30 days." Request it before you need it.
Three things to know before you rely on the file:
- Apple doesn't document the file's contents. The privacy page describes data categories, but not the exact format of the download. Check what you receive before you plan around it.
- Use the right account. If you've switched phones or sign-in methods over the years, your history may be split across accounts. Request the data for each one.
- The Apple Account data request is a different thing. Apple's support article on requesting a copy of your Apple Account data, through its Data & Privacy page, lists categories such as iCloud data, Apple Music usage and store purchases. It doesn't mention Shazam by name, and we couldn't confirm that it includes your Shazam Library. Use the Shazam request for this job.
When the email arrives, open the file in a spreadsheet app or a text editor. What matters for the next step is a column for the song title and one for the artist. Dates are a bonus, because they let you work newest first.
Route 2: sync your Shazams to a My Shazam Tracks playlist
If you subscribe to Apple Music or Spotify, Shazam can add each song you identify to a playlist called My Shazam Tracks. Apple's Shazam guide describes it as automatic syncing of "your identified songs to a “My Shazam Tracks” playlist".
On an iPhone or iPad:
- Apple Music: tap the Settings button on the main Shazam screen, turn on Sync your songs to Apple Music, then tap Allow and Continue.
- Spotify: tap the Settings button, tap Connect next to Spotify, agree in Spotify, then tap OK to add identified songs to My Shazam Tracks.
On Android, swipe to the Library, tap Settings, and under "Music app preference" turn on Sync Shazam Library to Apple Music or Spotify.
The playlist route has one big advantage: every song is already a playable streaming track, not a line of text. It has two limits. Apple doesn't say whether turning on sync adds songs you identified before, so look at the playlist afterwards and compare it with your Library. And a playlist is a holding pen, not a decision. It keeps growing, and nothing in it tells you which tracks you've already listened to. Syncing Shazam to Spotify or Apple Music covers that trade-off in detail.
Route 3: share or copy songs one at a time
For a few tracks, open the song in your Shazam Library and share it through Messages or another app. Apple's guide covers this per song, on iPhone, iPad and Android. On an iPhone or iPad without the app open, Apple's support page says you can touch and hold the Recognize Music button in Control Center and tap History to see what you've identified; with the Shazam app installed, that opens the Shazam Library. From either list you can type the artist and title into your own notes.
It's fine for the three tracks from last weekend. For a few hundred, use one of the routes above. If you tag tracks mostly from Control Center, Shazam in Control Center explains where those songs end up.
What about shazam.com/myshazam?
Older instructions still point to a Shazam web page. Apple's Android support page says that to "access your previous Shazams anywhere", you can sign in with the same account at shazam.com/myshazam on a Mac or PC. When we checked on 3 October 2026, that address returned a page-not-found error, and none of Apple's current Shazam help pages describe a download there. So this guide doesn't treat it as a route. If Apple brings the page back or documents a download, this guide will change; until then, the data request is the supported way to get a copy.
What to do with your Shazam list
A list of Shazams is a list of maybes. Most of it is music you liked for a moment in a bar or a shop, and only part of it belongs in your crate. Before you open a store, turn the list into decisions.
Clean the list first
Open the file and reduce it to what you need:
- Keep the title and artist columns, and the date if there is one.
- Remove obvious duplicates: the same song identified several times.
- Sort newest first. Recent finds are the most likely to still fit what you play.
- Save a copy as CSV or plain text, one track per row.
If the file has extra lines at the top, such as a heading, delete them so the first row is either a column header or a track.
Sort it in batches
Don't try to judge five years of Shazams in one evening. Batch size is up to you; a reasonable starting point is the most recent 50 to 100 tracks. Listen to each one long enough to judge it, and decide keep or reject. No "maybe" pile. A track you can't decide on after a proper listen is a reject; if it's good, it will turn up again.
Rules that keep batches moving:
- Listen on headphones or monitors, not a phone speaker.
- Skip to the part that matters. For club tracks, that's usually the first drop or the main groove, not the intro.
- Stop when the batch is done. Come back to the next one another day, with fresh ears.
Turn the keep list into a shopping list
What survives sorting is your buy list. Search each store by title and artist, pick the version you actually heard (the extended mix, the remix, the edit), and mark each track as bought as soon as you've paid. For where to buy, see where DJs buy music.
Stop the backlog coming back
Once the old list is cleared, the goal is to never build a new one. Capture new tracks into the same place you sorted the old ones, and sort on a fixed day each week. How to keep track of every track you hear covers that system end to end.
Doing this with CatchIt!
CatchIt! is a Mac app with a free iOS companion. It doesn't import your Shazam history automatically, and Shazam doesn't offer an interface that would allow it. Instead, you bring the list in as a playlist or a file, and sort it like any other source.
- Import the playlist. If you synced Shazam to Apple Music or Spotify, paste the My Shazam Tracks playlist link into the Add Tracklist sheet. CatchIt! imports playlists of up to 500 tracks, as long as that service is connected.
- Or import a file. If the file from your data request has title and artist columns, or you've typed your own list, CatchIt! on the Mac imports CSV or plain-text files with a title and artist on each row. It tries a standard parser first, then a more flexible one, and on macOS 26 or later it can fall back to Apple Intelligence for files it can't read otherwise. The import becomes one tracklist in the Inbox sidebar and reports how many rows it imported and skipped. If rows get skipped, trim the file to title and artist columns and import it again. See Importing tracklists.
- Sort with two keys. In the Inbox, Return keeps a track (green) and Space rejects it (red), then moves to the next one. When a track you've already judged turns up again from another source, its previous decision shows with it.
- Shop from the Greens. Kept tracks collect in the Wishlist. Each row has Bandcamp, Beatport, YouTube and Google search links, a copy action that puts a clean "Title Artist" line on the clipboard, and a Done flag for what you've bought.
- Capture new tracks in CatchIt! from now on. The iOS app has its own Shazam button and a Shortcut you can pin to Control Center, so new finds land in the Mac's Inbox instead of building a new backlog. See Capturing tracks.
Checklist
- Request your data on shazam.com/privacy now; it can take up to 30 days.
- If you stream, turn on My Shazam Tracks sync for new finds.
- When the file arrives, keep title, artist and date, and sort newest first.
- Sort in small batches (50 to 100 tracks is a reasonable start): keep or reject, no maybes.
- Buy from the keep list and mark each purchase.
- Capture new tracks into the same place, and sort weekly.
For the terms used here, see the glossary. Questions about imports are answered in the FAQ.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there an export button in the Shazam app?
- No. Apple's Shazam help pages describe no way to export your Library as a file from the app. You can share songs one at a time, sync new finds to a My Shazam Tracks playlist, or request a copy of your Shazam data at shazam.com/privacy.
- Can you get your whole Shazam history at once?
- The closest route is the data request. Go to shazam.com/privacy, choose Download Your Data, sign in with the account you use in Shazam and enter an email address. Apple says the data arrives by email within 30 days, but it doesn't document what the file contains, so check it when it arrives.
- Does the My Shazam Tracks playlist include songs you identified before turning on sync?
- Apple's support pages don't say. They describe sync as adding identified songs to the playlist automatically from then on. Check the playlist after you turn it on, and use the data request if older songs are missing.
- Can you still download your Shazams from shazam.com/myshazam?
- Not today. Apple's Android support page still mentions that address for seeing previous Shazams, but it returned a page-not-found error when we checked on 3 October 2026. Use the data request on shazam.com/privacy instead.
- Can you export Shazams on Android?
- The same routes apply. The data request on shazam.com/privacy works with the Google or email account you use in Shazam on Android, and Android users can also sync identified songs to a My Shazam Tracks playlist in Apple Music or Spotify.
Sources
- Apple Support: Use Shazam on Android devices
- Shazam & Privacy
- Shazam: Download your data (sign-in page)
- Shazam User Guide: Where are my songs identified using the Shazam app saved?
- Shazam User Guide: Sync songs to the Shazam app using Control Center, Siri, and more
- Apple Support: Use the Shazam app with Apple Music, Spotify, and more
- Apple Support: Use your Apple device to identify what song is playing
- Shazam User Guide: Share your identified songs using Messages and more
- Apple Support: Get a copy of the data associated with your Apple Account