Spotify and Bandsintown Join Forces to Elevate Live Music Exploration

Spotify users can now effortlessly find live concerts listed by artists on Bandsintown, offering personalized event recommendations to over 602 million monthly active users around the world.

Enhancing Global Live Music Discovery

Empowering musicians and creating more dynamic fan experiences, Bandsintown and Spotify have partnered to integrate Bandsintown concert listings within Spotify's vast platform. This strategic alignment enables artists to seamlessly reach potential fans currently engaged in their music, thereby facilitating better awareness and ticket sales for live events internationally.

Addressing Challenges in the Live Music Industry

With the live music scene experiencing growing challenges, such as increased costs and higher competition marked by 150,000 additional concerts in 2023 compared to 2022, this partnership is timely. Bandsintown and Spotify are committed to ensuring that artists are seen and heard in a saturated market. The collaboration has already boosted the visibility of live events on Spotify, with a significant tenfold increase in impressions observed over the previous year.

A Mutual Mission to Support Artists

Bandsintown has always been focused on assisting artists in gaining recognition and filling venues. By joining forces with Spotify, the platform further narrows the gap between artists and their audience, underlining the importance of individual shows and fans. Fabrice Sergent, co-founder and managing partner of Bandsintown, emphasizes this dedication to fostering artist-fan connections.

The convenient Bandsintown for Artists tool, utilized by over 500,000 musicians, allows artists to manage their event notifications directly, thereby ensuring a reliable stream of data to Spotify. Once artists connect their Spotify profiles and share their events on Bandsintown, they immediately benefit from increased exposure through Spotify's various features, including artist profiles, Live Events Feed, and the Now Playing View.

Spotify's Commitment to Artist-Fan Engagement

Spotify's Jon Ostrow, Associate Director, Growth & Discovery, Live Events, highlights the essence of the partnership, focusing on deepening the relationship between artists and their fans. Direct access to concert listings and timely tour updates on Spotify not only amplifies artist visibility but also enriches the overall fan experience.

About Bandsintown and Spotify

Bandsintown, the world's largest live music discovery platform, serves 84 million users with billions of personalized concert recommendations yearly. Featuring shows from a diverse range of 600,000 artists worldwide, the platform enhances visibility through strategic partnerships.

Since its inception in 2008, Spotify has been a trailblazer in the audio streaming industry, introducing podcasts and audiobooks to its offerings. Today, the platform continues to dominate globally with a vast selection of millions of tracks and thousands of podcast titles for its massive user base.

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