Apple Music introduces concert discovery features
Streaming platform Apple Music has expanded its curation efforts into live shows by introducing new concert discovery features.
On Apple Maps, more than 40 new Guides – each curated by Apple Music editors – now highlight the best venues to experience live music in some of the world’s leading culture hubs.
Featured cities include Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York City, and San Francisco in North America; Berlin, London, Paris, and Vienna in Europe; Tokyo, Melbourne and Sydney in the Asia-Pacific region; and Mexico City in Latin America.
Apple Music’s new Set Lists space will showcase a selection of major tours
Apple Music Guides also allow fans to browse upcoming shows directly from Maps through Shazam’s concert discovery module — part of a suite of features introduced by Shazam last spring, leveraging concert information from event recommendation and artist discovery platform Bandsintown.
On Apple Music meanwhile, the new Set Lists space will showcase a selection of major tours, enabling fans to listen to setlists and read about the productions. For the first time on the app, fans will also be able to browse artists’ upcoming shows in their area by launching Shazam’s concert discovery module.
Apple Music Guides will be rolling out today on Maps at apple.co/MusicVenues, while Set Lists are available beginning today at apple.co/setlists.
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Shazam integrates Bandsintown for concert discovery
Shazam, the Apple-owned music identification app, is leveraging concert data from Bandsintown to help users across the world discover upcoming concerts. The partnership will enable users to find information and tickets for nearby concerts by ‘Shazaming’ a song or searching for it in the app or on the website.
Users can also launch a Shazam Artist page to explore dates, times and locations of upcoming live shows, tap on any concert to view additional tour information, share show details, and add events to their calendar.
“With the re-emergence of live music, we’re excited to give Shazam users access to concerts”
“Shazam has a long history of innovation in music discovery and connecting artists and fans,” says Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats. “With the re-emergence of live music, we’re excited to give Shazam users access to concerts and bring even more discoverability to artists.”
Fabrice Sergent, managing partner of Bandsintown, adds: “As live music returns, we’re on a mission to help artists get more visibility for their shows. Pent-up demand from fans eager to go back to concerts is being met by an unprecedented level of live shows from artists on tour.”
Bandsintown currently serves over 68 million music fans and 560,000 artists, managers, labels and booking agents. Meanwhile, Shazam counts over 225 million monthly active users, with more than 1 billion song recognitions per month and over 50 billion total since its inception.
Shazam previously partnered with WMG-owned concert discovery platform, Songkick, to integrate gig listings on the platform.
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