After hitting 100m registered customers, Bandsintown launches Market to attach 700K artists with distribution, knowledge, and merch instruments
Bandsintown launched a brand new market that hyperlinks its 700,000 unbiased artists with third-party companies for music distribution, fan knowledge administration, and merchandise gross sales, amongst others.
The transfer comes because the New York-based firm has reached 100 million registered customers and seeks to assist unbiased musicians navigate what it describes as “unpredictable algorithms” and assist them keep away from “overreliance on paid promoting.”
The Bandsintown for Artists Market brings collectively over 30 companions.
Artists can now use Bandsintown as a hub to sync tour dates throughout Apple Maps, Apple Music, Bing, Google, Shazam, Spotify, and YouTube, whereas connecting fan databases to advertising instruments like Group, Package, Openstage, and Rivet and displaying merch via Amazon Music and Shopify integrations.
Bandsintown additionally affords integrations with web site builders like Bandzoogle Squarespace, Wix and WordPress, together with link-in-bio instruments like Characteristic.fm and Linktree.
Bandsintown for Artists Market will even let artists uncover instruments to distribute their music through companions like CD Child, Cobrand, DistroKid, Groover, Musixmatch, ROSTR, SymphonyOS, Too Misplaced, TuneCore, un:hurd, and UnitedMasters.
Fabrice Sergent, Co-Founder and Managing Companion of Bandsintown Group, mentioned: “We’re on a mission to assist artists join with followers and construct careers on their very own phrases.
“The Market takes that mission additional by guaranteeing artists don’t simply attain billions of followers—they personal these relationships and might activate them throughout each software of their workflow. We’re proving that platforms can prioritize each huge scale and artist empowerment. It doesn’t need to be one or the opposite.”
“We’re on a mission to assist artists join with followers and construct careers on their very own phrases.”
Fabrice Sergent & Julien Mitelberg, Bandsintown Group
{The marketplace} launch follows Bandsintown’s current partnership with YouTube. Bandsintown turned the unique supplier of live performance listings on YouTube and YouTube Music following a partnership struck in August.
Final week, Bandsintown reported reaching 100 million registered fan customers throughout 196 nations regardless of what the corporate describes as persistent challenges with occasion consciousness.
The corporate mentioned it runs a catalog of 2.3 million occasions and employs AI to generate 450 million customized suggestions every month, directing customers to reveals based mostly on their listening historical past and site knowledge.
Bandsintown for Artists Market expands the corporate’s choices. It already operates a number of channels together with the Bandsintown Live shows app and web site that present a catalog of stay music occasions globally, the Bandsintown for Artists platform that helps musicians publish occasions, excursions, handle presales and promote live shows, and Bandsintown Professional, which serves venues and promoters with automated advertising distribution.
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