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Spotify has announced that it has entered into a partnership with the live events platform Bandsintown.Founded in 2007, Bandsintown is a website and app that allows users to find information about tours and concerts that are in their area, with artists having the ability to control their own listings.Now, Spotify has confirmed that Bandsintown listings will be directly integrated onto their platform. “Bandsintown is on a mission to help artists get discovered and sell out shows,” said Fabrice Sergent, co-founder of Bandsintown.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events. The feature is going live initially in the U.S., U.K., Sweden and Australia, with additional markets to follow at an undetermined date. Now, any certified artist on TikTok can use the in-app ticketing feature to promote their AXS live dates, according to the company.

Bandsintown with data collected from 1,106 music fans. The study also found that 34 per cent of respondents had plans to attend a show alone in the next 12 months.“Going to a show solo is the ultimate level of fandom,” Fabrice Sergent, co-founder and managing partner of Bandsintown, told NME.

Turnstile have shared an official music video for their ‘Glow On’ album cut ‘New Heart Design’, alongside the news of a North American theatre tour slated for October.The video offers newcoming fans a preview of what to expect from the tour, comprising a montage of shots filmed during their recent stints in North America and Europe. Shot entirely on 16mm film, it was co-directed by singer Brendan Yates and longtime collaborator Ian Hurdle, the latter of whom captured the concert footage. As for the song itself, the version of ‘New Heart Design’ featured in the video sports an extended ambient outro. Watch the video and see for yourself below:Dubbed the ‘Turnstile Love Connection’ tour (after the titular ‘Glow On’ single, EP and short film), the new North American tour will begin on Monday October 3 at The Brooklyn Mirage.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced their first UK headline shows in nine years, where they’re set to try out some new material.The New York band last toured the UK in 2013 following the release of their most recent studio album, ‘Mosquito’, which came out in April of that year.Today (March 14) the trio confirmed that they’ll perform two UK dates this summer: the O2 Apollo in Manchester (June 5) and the O2 Academy Brixton in London (June 7). Support will come from English Teacher (Manchester) as well as Dry Cleaning and Anika (London).“OK UK! We are coming to lend our light to dark ages and holy shit are we ready to play our hearts out for you!!” frontwoman Karen O said in a statement.“Yeah it’s been 9 years since we’ve graced your club stages! Yeah we’ve got some tunes so fresh and so NEW to try out on you! Yeah the bill is so MAJOR with Dry Cleaning and Anika in London and English Teacher in Manchester.”She added: “Dress up! Make a night of it! Support your fave band that you may have seen debut at Brixton back in ’02!! Yeah let’s not wait another decade to see each other again! CANNOT WAIT! They don’t love ya like we do!! Luv YYYs.”Tickets for Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ upcoming UK headline shows go on general sale this Friday (March 18) at 9am GMT.

NME about what US fans can expect from live music during the next stage of the ongoing pandemic.With some tours and festivals continuing to be postponed and others’ rescheduled dates due to start in the months ahead, some concern and confusion remains over what to expect from the state of live music this year. The producers of Governors Ball music festival, the people behind ticket-selling app Bandsintown, and an infectious disease specialist told us their insights and projections for events and festivals in 2022.Live music discovery and ticket purchasing app Bandsintown have reported an increase of 8 million users in the last six months. Fabrice Sergent, the app’s managing partner, told NME that those numbers were “pretty astonishing,” adding that recent ticket-buying behaviour in the US showed that “demand for live events is very strong.”“In terms of the number of upcoming shows and festivals being announced [in 2022], we’re still at about half of the number that were announced during this same period of time in the US in 2019 and 2020,” he said. Even with 50 per cent less shows, however, Bandsintown still described “a high level of consumer interest”.“We saw a very strong January in terms of the number of tickets sold; it was twice as many as 2019.

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Charli XCX debuted new music during a livestream event with Hannah Diamond and ELIO last night (March 19) – watch the footage below.The show, held by Bandsintown’s new livestream service, saw Charli intersperse new material with hits from her back catalogue and quarantine album ‘how i’m feeling now’.Of the two pieces of new music shared, one is an ‘80s-inspired snippet, while another full track, seemingly called ‘Don’t Think Twice’, came later in the set.Watch the performances of the new music below:OMG pic.twitter.com/owbwMjTvpH— leo (@unlocklt) March 20, 2021THIS PART #CharliXCXLivePLUS pic.twitter.com/F4DrairtRB— ambiance (@ambixcx) March 20, 2021In recent weeks, Charli XCX has shared a host of new music.

While there are recent reports estimating that live music venues could reopen this fall, there are options for fans relying on live streams for their concert fix. Music discovery platform Bandsintown is now offering a premium subscription service, Bandsintown Plus, giving users access to over 25 live streams a month for $9.99, according to Pollstar.

Bandsintown PLUS.The new series will allow subscribers to view over 25 live shows a month and boasts a star-studded line-up for its first month in action.For $9.99 (£7.32) a month, music fans can get access to livestream shows from a range of artists, from emerging talent like Claud and Omar Apollo, to established acts like Waxahatchee and Rodrigo y Gabriela.Booked to appear on the platform in its first month are artists including Phoebe Bridgers, Soccer Mommy, Big Thief’s Adrienne Lenker, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Little Dragon, Empress Of, Chromeo and more.In a press release, Bandsintown said the new subscription service “democratises and revolutionises the live music experience, directly supporting artists in the process”.A post

Chris Willman Music WriterThe live music web hub Bandsintown is introducing a streaming concert subscription service, Bandsintwon Plus, that will offer shows from independent artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Jeff Tweedy, Soccer Mommy, Joe Bonamassa, Fleet Foxes and Mt. Joy  for a flat $9.99 monthly fee.The “all access pass” for Bandsintown Plus promises more than 25 concerts a month.The coming show by Adrianne Lenker is touted as her first solo livestream outside of the Big Thief band she also fronts.

Top Livestream Artists (artists with 250,001 or more trackers on Bandsintown.com) and the Buzzing Livestream Artists (artists with 10,000 or fewer trackers) have featured a different chart-topper each week since the July 11 launch.But the Rising Livestream Artists chart (artists with 10,001-250,000 trackers) has been dominated by one act. After debuting at No.

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menu, one can view rankings for Top Livestream Artists, Rising Livestream Artists, and Buzzing Livestream Artists. These three tiers are broken out by the number of trackers (Bandsintown’s version of a fan, or follower) an artist has on their Bandsintown.com profile.The Top chart is for artists with 250,001 or more trackers, the Rising chart is for artists with 10,001-250,000 trackers, and the Buzzing chart reviews artists with 10,000 or fewer trackers.

Concert discovery platform Bandsintown has expanded its bi-weekly livestream performances to five days a week. As the platform reports reaching 10 million viewers in a month, its live streaming channel Bandsintown Live will host a genre-inspired, themed channel showcasing emerging and established artists.

As social distancing and shelter-in-place regulations hold in place, musicians are continuing to use livestream platforms to stay busy and stay connected. The number of livestream events added to Bandsintown.com between April 22-28 rose to a weekly total of 3,109 (though some of these livestreams won’t play until a later date), up 21.5% from the previous week, which was already up 11.75% from the week before.Bandsintown has tracked a total of 12,360 livestreams by 5,304 artists over 35 days (March 25 – April 28).

Since concert venues of all sizes shut down around the globe in mid-March, artists have been adjusting in order to stay engaged with their fans, remain artistically inspired and simply stay busy. Much of that energy has resulted in a flood of livestreams across digital platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, as well as companies like Twitch, StageIt and Null.While artists have spread across the internet to host these virtual concerts and gatherings, Bandsintown continues to centralize this information, just as they do for live concerts.

A new survey conducted by live event discovery platform Bandsintown shows that fans would be willing to continue watching live-streamed events after large gathering bans are lifted. According to the survey, 74% of fans say they will watch live streams on a regular basis after live shows return.

For years, Bandsintown has been a leader for direct-to-fan engagement as artists tour the globe. Now, in addition to full tour schedules and alerts, Bandsintown is adding WATCH LIVE alerts to artist pages to link directly to livestream concerts, including Facebook Live, Instagram Stories, or performances hosted here on Billboard.com.Artists will be able to promote their various livestreams on their own Bandsintown page.

LABELS & PUBLISHERSUniversal Music’s DIY distribution platform Spinnup has expanded into Japan. As with the platform elsewhere, one of the draws of the service for DIY artists is the chance to be heard by Universal A&Rs.

Rolling into the summer, artists are continuing to be creative with their direct-to-fan engagement in the absence of traditional concerts. Some acts have performed drive-in concerts for packed parking lots. A very small few have performed concerts at traditional venues at reduced capacity to comply with social distancing regulations. And many continue to play from their living rooms, backyards, or the Grand Canyon via livestream to fans around the world.