

This is exactly what concert discovery app Songkick is doing.


It is then safe to say that supply is vast for fans to choose from nevertheless, curation is the key to transform this unstructured immense array of alternatives, into a relevant set of suggestions tailored to the customer’s taste. This is pretty overwhelming if you don’t really know which specific artist you’re looking for. I just did a random search in Ticketmaster for concerts in NYC in the next 7 days, and I got no less than 273 different results. What we’re missing here is that the biggest source of incomes to artists is actually ticket sales, a space where attendance rates have plateaued at 50%, mainly because fans do not even know a show is happening. Even if not experts in the matter, we’ve all at least heard about Taylor Swift removing her music from Spotify as an act of protest to the fees that are currently paid to the artists. We’ve all heard about the ongoing battle for royalties among different players in the music industry.
