Make your concerts discoverable for fans
Your shows are more discoverable than ever before. By keeping your concert details up to date in Bandsintown, fans can easily discover and browse key details about your upcoming shows across multiple Apple services. Dates may appear across the following services:
If your concerts are available on Ticketmaster, they may also appear across these services.
Explore concerts in Apple Music
Your upcoming concerts are discoverable in Apple Music. Fans can explore nearby concerts and tour dates, and get notified when you’re on the road so they never miss your shows.
When users open the Music app to Home, they’ll see a Concerts section recommending nearby shows from their favorite artists. Concerts may also be visible in the Top Picks section. Additionally, fans can use the Concerts category in the Search tab to explore shows by location, date, or genre. Badges with tour dates on your artist, album, and some playlist detail pages will also let fans know you’ve got an upcoming show.
Your Concert Detail page is where fans can find everything they need to buy tickets. It displays key details like your artist name, image, and tour name. Fans can also add your tour dates to their calendar, get venue details, and purchase tickets.
By turning on Concert notifications in Settings, fans can make sure they never miss nearby shows.
Discover more than songs with Shazam
When fans use Shazam to discover a song, they can view upcoming shows, browse available tickets, add concerts to their calendars, learn more about the venue, and listen to songs to get ready for your show. Fans even have the option to “Save” your concerts, and when they visit Shazam.com, they can explore shows happening in their neighborhood and around the world.
Spotlight Search on iPhone
Fans can easily use Spotlight Search to find upcoming shows when they search for select artist names. To activate it, just swipe down on the middle of your home screen and type what you’re looking for in the search bar.
Discover concert pages by tapping any of the upcoming show dates in the concerts section on an artist’s search result. Tapping a concert date launches the dedicated concert page.
Search nearby venues in Apple Maps
Fans can also find your shows by searching for a specific venue you’ll be playing in Apple Maps. Once users land on the Apple Maps search result for a particular venue, they can click “Tickets” and then “Shazam” to get a list of upcoming shows.
Apple Maps also offers over 65 curated Apple Music Guides and Classical Guides showcasing top live music venues in select cities around the globe. Users can access concert pages for these leading venues when browsing Guides by city, genre, or music scene, and tapping “Find out more.”
Concerts are discoverable for select artists, handpicked by our editorial team on Apple Music alongside Set List playlists, that spotlight major upcoming tours. Fans can discover more about an artist’s upcoming show, listen to Set List playlists, explore artist catalogs, and browse upcoming concerts.
View concert details in Photos
Fans can view details from their past concerts directly in the Info panel in Photos. From the concert detail page in the Info panel, fans can listen to your top songs, tour set list when available, or even browse upcoming shows.
Create your Set List playlist in Apple Music for Artists
Promote your show by creating a Set List playlist in Apple Music for Artists. Once you’ve made your Set List for an upcoming show, you can publish to Apple Music and share it with fans across social media.
Playlists will display in order of popularity on your Apple Music artist page and Apple Music for Artists profile. Your Set List will also publish to Apple Maps, Photos, your Shazam artist page, concerts pages in the Shazam app, and on Shazam.com.