- Google announced Hum to Recognise Songs
- Billboard and Google collaboratively compiled a list
- List consists of Top 100 Hummed songs to Google’s Assistant
What is the Hum Feature?
In October this year, Google’s last announcement at Search On 2020 will likely be its most popular. And from the same day, you can “Hum to Search” using Google to find out what song has been stuck in your head.
Google lets users “hum, whistle, or sing a melody” to Search on mobile devices. In the Google app for Android and iOS, you can tap the microphone and say “what’s this song?” or hit the “Search a song” button.
The users must hum for 10-15 seconds before “Results from Google Search” are provided. This list includes cover art and artist name, as well as a match percentage.
Hum to Search also works in Assistant after saying “Hey Google, what’s this song.”
A List of Top 100 songs
With collaboration with Google, Billboard has released the top 100 songs that people have hummed to the Google Assistant.
According to Google, the Assistant’s Hum to Search is capable of recognizing over 500,000 songs, regardless of whether you hum, whistle, or sing the song you’re looking for. To make this possible, Google had to distill those songs down to numbers representing their melodies.
Since launching, Hum to Search has become a popular way to identify that song that’s stuck in your head. To commemorate the feature and the upcoming end of the year, Google has collaborated with Billboard magazine to chart the top 100 songs found via Hum to Search.
The Leaderboards
- Number 1: Old Town Road by Lil Nas X
- Number 2: Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
- Number 3: Dance Monkey by Tones And I
- Number 4: I Hope by Gabby Barrett
- Number 5: Believer by Imagine Dragons
Other internet classics can be found further down the Billboard chart of Hum to Search tracks, such as Baby Shark by Pinkfong and All Star by Smash Mouth. Meanwhile, quite a few classic rock songs appear from the likes of Queen, Deep Purple, and Blondie.
Billie Eilish’s hit Bad Guy is sitting at #12 and was recently the subject of a special AI-powered experiment from YouTube Music Infinite Bad Guy.
Given Hum to Search is a relatively new feature and how early some like to celebrate the holidays, a few Christmas songs appear in 2020’s top hummed list, including Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You.
