Beat Shazam
| Beat Shazam | |
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| Genre | Game show |
| Created by |
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| Presented by | Jamie Foxx |
| Starring | October Gonzalez |
| Theme music composer | Earth, Wind & Fire |
| Opening theme | "Let's Groove" by Earth, Wind & Fire |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Jamie Foxx Jeff Apploff Mark Burnett Rich Riley Lauren Zalaznick |
| Production company(s) | Apploff Entertainment MGM Television (season 1) W Studios Powered by Univision Sony Pictures Television (season 2) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | May 25, 2017 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Beat Shazam is an American television game show which airs on Fox, which premiered on May 25, 2017 in the United States. The show is hosted by Jamie Foxx, who is also an executive producer on the show along with Jeff Apploff (who created the show with Wes Kauble), Mark Burnett, Rich Riley, and Lauren Zalaznick. On July 12, 2017, Fox renewed the series for a second season.
Three teams of two players each compete through five rounds to identify a series of songs, banking money for each correct answer. After the fifth round, the highest-scoring team plays head-to-head against the Shazam app, attempting to increase their winnings by naming up to six songs before it can identify them. Any team that beats Shazam on all six songs wins a grand prize of $1 million.
The main game consists of five rounds. In each round, a category is given and five songs are played, one at a time (However, in some episodes of the show, four songs are played in the round instead of five). Four choices are displayed for the title of each song; the first team to buzz-in with the correct answer wins money. If more than one team rings in with the correct answer, the money is awarded to the team that locked in their answer in the fastest time. The final song of each category is called the "Fast Track" and is played for double the round value. There is no penalty for incorrect answers.
After the third round, the team in last place is eliminated and leaves with nothing. After the fifth round, the trailing team is eliminated and keeps half their money. A team can accumulate up to $126,000 during the main game. In the event of a tie after rounds three or five, one additional song, with no category given, is played as a tiebreaker, using the same rules as the main game. No money is awarded for the Tiebreaker song, and the team that answers it correctly in the fastest time moves on to the final round.
The winning team attempts to identify five more songs, one at a time, before Shazam can do so. Each correct answer awards the team $25,000. No multiple-choice answers are offered in this round, and each song is in a different category. The team must answer with the exact wording of the title. A yellow ring on the gameboard steadily disappears to act as a timer; the contestants must buzz in before it is completely gone. If the team fails to buzz in on any song, or fails to identify any song, they lose the opportunity to play for $1 million.
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