About Songkick
Songkick makes going to shows as easy as going to the movies.
It was too much work to find out when our favorite bands come to town. We subscribed to mailing lists, used tour tracking websites, and read music blogs/Pitchfork religiously for tour news. It was really time-consuming. So we're building the live music listings and recommendations website we want. Finding concert tickets is easy on Songkick. Never pay more than you have to!
Googling for concert tickets is a pain. Our concert ticket search engine makes it easy. We aggregate listings from 16 different ticket vendors in the US and UK. We put all the concert listings and links to ticket sellers in one place so you can compare prices. We never charge you anything! It costs the same as if you'd found the tickets yourself in the first place.
We're obsessed with being the most comprehensive concert listings site out there.
We're always adding more listings because we want to make sure we have every single concert in existence—no matter how obscure the band or tiny the venue. We even index bands' MySpace pages to make sure we have all their dates.
If you know about a show we haven't listed, please tell us by emailing feedback@songkick.com.
Personalized concert listings with our Tour Tracker and Songkicker
When you sign up for an account, you can track tours for all your favorite bands. Your profile page on Songkick is like your personalized dashboard for fun. It presents you a schedule of when your tracked artists are coming to town, the shows you've saved, and the concerts we think you'll like based on your taste.
You'll get an email alert when they announce dates in your city. If you'd rather not enter bands in manually into our Tour Tracker, try the Songkicker. Songkicker is a downloadable plug-in for iTunes, Windows Media Player, and Winamp that automatically scans your entire music library and adds all the artists into your Tour Tracker. (The Songkicker will save you time, which means watching more baby DJ and baby drummer videos on YouTube. )
Songkick secret sauce? Our concert recommendation engine!
Any engine can make recorded music recommendations, but live music recommendations are trickier. That's because the set of artists playing live (your brother's garage band at your local bar's open mic night) is quite different from the set of artists with albums out.
Our technology considers any mention of music on the web as a data point for our recommendations. By casting our data net wide (including anything about music on the internet) and deep (aggregating expert critical opinion from blogs and music publications), we can infer similarities between artists, compare this to your personal music taste, and recommend concerts we think you'll actually go to.
Get your geek on in the Songkick Labs.
Check out our Labs section where we're playing around with a few new toys.
Songkick Ranking
measures an artist's popularity on the Internet using information from MySpace, blogs, and Amazon. We'll keep gathering data from more and more sources, and continue to refine our formula, until we are all stunned into silence by the amazingly accruate buzz measurement of the Songkick Ranking.
The Battle of the Bands
graphs represent the data influencing Songkick Ranking. You can compare how any three bands measure up against each other—it's like Alexa for bands.
Blogger widgets.
We created a special widget for bloggers. When installed, it reads every post and identifies bands on tour. It then automatically inserts a link to ticket options for bands on tour mentioned in the blog. It's like a little ghost sitting inside your blog and creating relevant content for you, without any extra work! Visit the Songkick blog to see how this works, and maybe listen to a new song or two. We're still testing this out, so let us know what you think.
So, did you find a concert?
Obviously all of this is no good if you don't actually go to more concerts because of us. So let us know about the shows you find because of us!
