Ticketmaster has announced a series of new integrations with Apple, alongside a partnership with American rapper and singer Post Malone.

Fans can now discover Ticketmaster tickets through song-identification app Shazam with additional touchpoints across Apple Music, Apple Maps, and iOS Spotlight Search.

Bonus content such as the tour setlist playlist, Apple Watch faces, phone wallpapers and photos will also be available for featured artists.

On Shazam, fans can “save” their favourite artists to be notified of future content, tickets and more.

Fans will also be able to follow along with Malone’s tour on a new Apple Music Guide on Apple Maps and see his favorite stops

Malone is the first artist to be featured in the ‘360 programme’ for his F-1 Trillion tour, which kicked off this weekend and will span 21 dates in the US. In advance of the tour, he shared a preview of his tour setlist exclusively on Apple Music.

Fans will also be able to follow along with Malone’s tour on a new Apple Music Guide on Apple Maps and see his stops on the road – while discovering new ways to find Post Malone tickets at the venues near them.

Ticketmaster first announced the partnership with Shazam in July, following on from similar partnerships with TikTok and Snapchat.

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Ticketmaster has announced a new partnership with Shazam, the leading song-identification app.

The integration enables artists to link their Ticketmaster events directly in the Shazam app, so that fans can see where their new favourite artist is performing whenever they Shazam a new track.

The feature, which is available in all Ticketmaster markets, comes on the heels of similar partnerships with TikTok and Snapchat.

On Snapchat, fans can browse Ticketmaster’s complete catalogue of upcoming events anywhere in the world by using Snap Map. On TikTok, Certified Artists can share links to their Ticketmaster events so that fans can get tickets without leaving the app.

All three integrations aim to help facilitate easier event discovery and ticket buying for artists and fans, according to Live Nation-owned Ticketmaster.

“Our collaborations with platforms like Shazam are designed to make it easy for artists to connect their fans to their live events”

“At Ticketmaster, we are constantly working to enhance the live event experience,” says Dan Armstrong, executive vice president of distributed commerce at Ticketmaster. “Our collaborations with platforms like Shazam are designed to make it easy for artists to connect their fans to their live events.

“By seamlessly integrating ticket purchases with moments of musical discovery, we’re not only ensuring fans never miss out on unforgettable live shows but also fostering a deeper connection with the artists they love.”

To celebrate their platform expansion, Ticketmaster has enlisted Meghan Trainor, NIKI and Peach Tree Rascals to show fans how to find Ticketmaster events using TikTok, Snap and Shazam via a new campaign called Music Finds You which includes three new ad shorts that bring the app integrations to life.

“For us, music is all about connection,” say Peach Tree Rascals. “Ticketmaster’s integration with Snap Map means that our fans can easily discover when we’re in town performing, creating a space for us to unite and vibe together live. It’s a win-win situation – bringing us closer to our fans and spreading the love.”

NIKI adds: “I’m so excited for fans to be able to scroll through TikTok and buy Ticketmaster tickets for their favorite artists’ shows right away. This Ticketmaster integration makes the concert-going process a lot more streamlined. It feels like it should have always been this way in the first place!”

Ticketmaster was the first ticketing platform to partner on a product integration within TikTok in 2022, and was the only ticketing company to integrate with Snap Map’s Layers feature, which allows users to view events near them directly in the Snap Map.

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Shazam, the Apple-owned music identification app, has introduced a new feature that will allow users to find nearby shows through recommendations based on their Shazam histories.

The new ‘Concerts’ feature will recommend events, allow users to save and set reminders about upcoming shows and view available tickets, with options to buy them through BandsInTown or other ticket providers.

It also offers exclusives from certain artists that will be available for users to unlock, such as behind-the-scenes videos, Apple Watch faces, tour photos and setlists, among other things.

The feature is already available for iOS users within the My Music section of the app and will be coming to Android soon.

The new feature will recommend events, allow users to save and set reminders about upcoming shows and view available tickets

It has also been incorporated into Spotlight, where iPhone users can now search for an artist and get concert and ticketing information immediately in iOS 17.

It marks the latest Apple feature to incorporate live music data and information into its functionality, after additions to Apple Maps and the Set Lists feature within Apple Music.

The Concerts feature builds on a previous collaboration with BandsInTown that was initially announced in March 2022.

Through that partnership, Shazam users could search for an artist and pull up their forthcoming tour information using the BandsInTown database of shows for over 500,000 artists.

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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, 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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Shazam today went live with the new version of its app, which sees Songkick’s database of more than five million concert listings integrated into the popular music-identification platform.

Teased late last year, the integration forms part of the recently launched Discover feature, curated by a user’s music taste and updated daily to include content ‘cards’ of new songs, videos, playlists and – as of today – Songkick concert data.

“When an artist announces a tour, fans who live near the venue will see a relevant concert card as part of their ‘Discover’ experience,” explains Shazam’s chief product officer, Fabio Santini. “We think it further streamlines music discovery on Shazam, and we can’t wait for fans to see it in action.”

“When an artist announces a tour, fans who live near the venue will see a relevant concert card as part of their Discover experience”

Songkick CEO Matt Jones adds: “We’re constantly innovating to make the live music experience better, and this is a great example of how we’re utilising Songkick’s extensive data to enhance the fan experience. Songkick and Shazam are both dedicated to making music fans’ lives easier, and we’re excited to see the impact of this enhanced discovery experience.”

Songkick cards appear in v7.6 of the Android app and v10.6 on iOS.7

Songkick, a concert discovery and direct-to-fan ticketing platform, hired Shazam’s former senior director of global music partnerships, Nick Fishbaugh, last July.

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Popular music-identification app Shazam will soon include concert listings from Songkick, adding a live component its existing integrations with Spotify, YouTube, iTunes/Apple Music and several other music streaming services.

From early next year, users of Shazam – which has been downloaded more than a billion times since launching in 2008 – will be directed to tour dates “at the very moment they’re finding new music they love”.

Matt Jones, Songkick’s CEO, says: “The moment of discovery is such an important time to educate the fan about a show. I’m proud to say we’ve built a technology platform that will enable every artist we work with, and every fan who uses us, a chance to seamlessly discover new artists and immediately have the opportunity to see them live.

“In partnering with Songkick to create this new offering, we are able to further connect the dots from discovery to fandom that make up a strong artist-to-fan relationship”

“Shazam plays such a pivotal role in music discovery, and we’re excited to expand our reach to millions of more live music fans around the globe, ensuring Songkick is available wherever fans are engaging the most.”

“We’re constantly looking for ways to branch out in new ways to serve our users, focusing on what is important to music fans,” adds Fabio Santini, chief product officer at Shazam. “In partnering with Songkick to create this new offering, we are able to further connect the dots from discovery to fandom that make up a strong artist-to-fan relationship. We are extremely excited about bringing this to our global community in 2017.”

Ticketing and concert discovery service Songkick hired Shazam’s former senior director of global music partnerships, Nick Fishbaugh, in July.

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Artist-ticketing and concert discovery service Songkick has added to its business development staff with the hire of Nick Fishbaugh, previously senior director of global music partnerships at Shazam.

Fishbaugh will join the London-based company’s US west coast office in Los Angeles.

Prior to working at Shazam, whose app – one of the most popular in the world – uses a smartphone or computer microphone to identify a song being played and then links to it on streaming services and digital music stores, Fishbaugh was an artist manager at Pat Magnarella Management and The Collective in California.

“This has been a monumental year for Songkick, and with the addition of Nick we’re able to connect with more incredible artists around the world and further enhance the live experience”

He will now be responsible for expanding Songkick’s reach worldwide, including partnerships with new artists.

“This has been a monumental year for Songkick, and with the addition of Nick we’re able to connect with more incredible artists around the world and further enhance the live experience,” says Matt Jones, who has been Songkick’s sole CEO since January. “We’re witnessing a tremendous year of growth across our platform, and as we continue to work with more artists and remain a transparent, pioneering technology partner, we’re paving the way for additional announcements to come.”

Songkick’s “monumental year” so far includes becoming an associate member of the MMF and continuing to battle Ticketmaster/Live Nation in the California courts.

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