Shazam, you know, the app that can make your phone identify songs, launched a suite of concert features.
The new features now let you explore upcoming live music shows and increase exposure for artists.
Just by Shazaming a song – searching for it in the Shazam app or on the Shazam website – you can find concert information and tickets on sale for upcoming shows by that artist nearby.
You 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.
Shazam has a long history of innovation in music discovery and connecting artists and fans. With the reemergence of live music, we’re excited to give Shazam users access to concerts and bring even more discoverability to artists.
Apple Music and Beats vice president, Oliver Schusser.
Shazam’s new features use concert information from Bandsintown, an event recommendation and artist discovery platform that serves over 68 million music fans and 560,000 artists, managers, labels, and booking agents.
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 managing partner Fabrice Sergent.
Shazam is, of course, best known for its music recognition features – including its “Tap to Shazam” button, its Music Recognition control for Control Center on iOS, Shazam from Notifications on Android and more.
The app has over 225 million monthly active users, with more than 1 billion song recognitions per month, and over 50 billion total since its inception.
More than that, artists, fans, and the global music industry follow Shazam’s wide variety of charts that reflect both early and global music trends.
Shazam also makes yearly predictions that offer an indication of which artists have the potential of making a splash.
Last year, Shazam selected Australian hip-hop artist Masked Wolf among its 5 artists to watch. His track “Astronaut In The Ocean” has now been Shazamed over 12 million times and was crowned most-Shazamed song of 2021 globally.
Availability:
- Shazam’s new concert pages are available in the iOS and Android apps, and on Shazam.com
- Artists can now make available their tour information to Shazam via Bandsintown For Artists and continue to access unique Apple Music and Shazam audience insights on Apple Music for Artists.
