Songkick

What Songkick does

Songkick is a live music discovery and ticketing platform founded in 2007 that helps music fans find concerts, track favorite artists for tour alerts, and purchase tickets worldwide. The product surface consists of the Songkick website, native iOS and Android mobile applications, and an artist-facing tool called Tourbox that allows musicians and managers to promote tour dates to Songkick's user base. The platform covers multiple genres (rock, pop, hip-hop, electronic, metal, country, jazz, comedy) and operates across geographies in English, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese, with location-based discovery and Spotify integration for importing followed artists.

Under the hood, Songkick's technology centers on a large proprietary concert and tour date database aggregated over 17+ years, combined with artist tracking, geographic event discovery, and ticket purchase routing. The platform exposes an API referenced in industry coverage alongside Spotify Web, Genius, and Bandsintown for music industry data access. Distribution is primarily organic — SEO-driven search, social media presence on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook, and app store distribution.

The business model is freemium for consumers (the platform is free for fans) with a subscription/professional services revenue stream from Tourbox for artists; additional monetization historically came via ticketing referral economics. Songkick was previously owned by Warner Music Group and was acquired by AI music generation platform Suno in November 2025 as part of a broader settlement and licensing partnership, with Suno planning to reimagine Songkick using AI capabilities and develop an AI-powered integration connecting live music discovery with AI-generated music creation.

Name

Songkick

Legal name

Songkick

Website

https://songkick.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Songkick is a live music discovery platform founded in 2007 that helps music fans find concerts, track artists for tour alerts, and purchase tickets globally, serving both consumers (freemium) and artists/managers via its Tourbox subscription tool.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Concert Discovery and Ticketing

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Music Discovery & Curation Platforms (Recommendations, Playlists) (MPAIACAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Ticketing Platforms & Primary Ticketing (MPAIAFAD)

Keywords

• Concert discovery platform
• Live music ticketing
• Artist tour management
• Event discovery
• Live music database

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Consumer Platform - Free for Users: The core Songkick platform is free for music fans to discover concerts, track artists, and receive tour alerts. Revenue is generated through premium artist tools (Tourbox) and potential data services.
2. Tourbox for Artists: Artist-facing tool that allows artists and managers to promote their tour dates to Songkick's user base of concert-goers, enabling wider visibility for live events

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Songkick operates a free consumer-facing concert discovery platform accessible via web and mobile apps, enabling music fans to find live events, track favorite artists, and purchase tickets. The company complements this consumer product with Tourbox, an artist-facing subscription tool for submitting and managing tour dates to reach concert-going audiences worldwide.

Product overview

Songkick is a live music discovery platform and ticketing service that operates as a unified product rather than a modular architecture. The core offering consists of the Songkick website and mobile app, which provide concert discovery, artist tracking, and ticket purchasing functionality. An artist-facing component called Tourbox enables performers to manage their tour schedules and reach fans. In November 2025, Suno acquired Songkick from Warner Music Group as part of a strategic licensing partnership, with plans to develop AI-powered integrations connecting live music discovery with AI-generated music creation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tourbox: Artist-facing tool for managing tour dates and promoting concerts

Products and services

• Songkick Web Platform A free web-based concert discovery platform that helps users find live music events near them, browse concerts by genre and artist, track favorite musicians, and purchase tickets. The service supports location-based discovery and personalized recommendations based on user music preferences, and is accessible globally with multi-language support.
• Songkick Mobile App A mobile application available on iOS and Android that provides on-the-go access to concert discovery, ticket purchasing, and personalized event alerts based on followed artists and music taste. Distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play.
• Tourbox for Artists A subscription-based artist-facing platform that allows musicians, bands, and their management teams to submit and manage tour dates, reach fans, and increase visibility for live performances across Songkick's global audience of concert-goers.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• SunocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 November 2025Suno, an AI music generation platform, acquired Songkick from Warner Music Group as part of a landmark licensing deal. The acquisition is part of Suno's strategy to integrate live music discovery with its AI-powered artist and creation ecosystem. Suno plans to 'reimagine' Songkick with AI capabilities, developing an AI-powered integration connecting live music discovery with AI-generated music creation.
• Warner Music GroupcoreTechnology or Integration · 25 November 2025Warner Music Group sold Songkick to Suno as part of a comprehensive settlement that ended a 17-month copyright lawsuit and established a licensing partnership. The deal included Songkick's transfer to Suno along with licensed AI music model development. WMG was the first major label to officially partner with an AI music generation platform.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the dominant primary ticketing platform globally and a key inventory source for Songkick's ticket purchase flow. As a Live Nation subsidiary, it controls primary ticket supply for most major tours and increasingly invests in owned discovery surfaces that overlap with Songkick's value proposition.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a broad ticketing and event-discovery platform covering concerts, festivals, comedy, and other live experiences. While broader than Songkick's music focus, it competes for the same audience of live-event-goers and offers promoter-facing tools analogous to Tourbox.
• StubHub: StubHub is a major secondary ticketing marketplace owned by Viagogo. While secondary-focused, it surfaces concert discovery alongside resale inventory and competes with Songkick for the same concert-goer audience at the ticket-purchase step of the funnel.
• Spotify: Spotify is the world's largest music streaming platform and Songkick's most consequential competitive overlap: it has integrated 'concerts near you' surfaces powered by first-party listening data. Songkick's existing Spotify import integration also makes Spotify both a partner and a competitive threat in concert discovery.
• Live Nation Entertainment: Live Nation is the world's largest live entertainment company and parent of Ticketmaster. It promotes concerts, owns/operates venues, and increasingly offers its own discovery and fan-engagement apps that compete with Songkick's tour-listing and ticket-link functionality.

Direct peers

• Bandsintown: Bandsintown is the closest direct competitor to Songkick — a concert discovery app that lets fans track artists, receive tour alerts, and buy tickets across multiple genres. Both platforms compete for the same concert-going audience and run freemium models with artist/promoter promotional tools.
• DICE: DICE is a mobile-first ticketing and discovery platform focused on live music events, with strong presence in the UK, Europe, and select US markets. It competes head-to-head with Songkick in concert discovery while also acting as a primary ticketer for venues and promoters.
• AXS: AXS is a primary ticketing platform and concert-discovery destination operated by AEG. It powers ticketing for many major venues and tours and competes with Songkick both as a ticket purchase endpoint and as a discovery surface for live music fans.

Emerging players

• Resident Advisor: Resident Advisor (RA) is a globally recognized electronic-music event listing and ticketing platform. While narrower in genre than Songkick, it offers a comparable artist-tracking and discovery experience for electronic music fans and is a relevant peer in the live-music discovery category.

Others

• Shazam: Shazam (owned by Apple) is a music recognition app that surfaces artist information including upcoming concerts and tour dates. It is an adjacent discovery channel rather than a direct competitor, but increasingly overlaps with Songkick's concert-listing utility for casual music fans.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/songkick
• YouTubeyoutube.com/songkick
• Facebookfacebook.com/songkick
• Instagraminstagram.com/songkick
• TikToktiktok.com/@songkick
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/songkick-com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors9 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

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