Why every musician should be on Bandsintown for Artists — and why right now is the perfect moment to sign up
If you’re a working musician, you know the frustration. You’ve got a gig coming up. You’ve posted it on Facebook, sent it to your mailing list, maybe put it on your website. And still, fans turn up saying they had no idea you were playing in their town last week.
There’s a free tool that’s quietly become one of the most powerful things in a musician’s promotional toolkit — and if you’re not using it yet, you’re missing out on an audience of billions.
What is Bandsintown for Artists?
Bandsintown for Artists is a free platform where you enter your gig dates once — and they automatically appear across the biggest music platforms on the planet. We’re talking Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Apple Maps, Microsoft Bing, and more.
Tour dates sync to link-in-bio tools like Feature.fm and Linktree, and website platforms including Bandzoogle, Squarespace, Wix and WordPress — so your whole digital presence stays up to date without any extra effort.
Big news: Apple Music just joined the party
This week brought a landmark announcement for any musician using Bandsintown. Artists who publish events through Bandsintown for Artists and connect their Apple Music profile can now have their shows appear automatically on the platform, including a brand new Concerts tab in Apple Music search.
Fans on Apple Music will be able to view event details including direct ticketing links, venue information and setlists — and Apple Music will send notifications to users when artists they follow have upcoming shows nearby.
Artists can link the two platforms by connecting their Apple Music artist page URL within the Bandsintown for Artists dashboard. After being connected, events will sync to Apple Music within 48 hours.
YouTube, Spotify, Google… already on board
The Apple Music integration is the latest in a remarkable run of partnerships. Bandsintown has become the exclusive provider of concert listings on YouTube and YouTube Music, meaning your gigs can surface while fans are watching your videos, exploring your channel, or browsing the YouTube homepage — and a push notification feature alerts users to nearby concerts automatically.
Spotify uses Bandsintown concert data to power event listings for artists and populate Event Pages featuring venue information, artist content, and a link for fans to buy tickets. Fans can discover your upcoming concerts while they’re streaming your music — right at the moment they’re most engaged with what you do.
On Google, when fans search for an artist and include terms like “concerts”, “tour”, or “tour dates”, Google automatically displays the Events tab first in the search results — powered by Bandsintown data.
The numbers speak for themselves
Alongside integrations with YouTube, YouTube Music, Spotify, Shazam, Google, Bing and now Apple Music, Bandsintown’s concert listings are now shared with more than 4 billion active users.
More than 700,000 artists and 65,000 venues use Bandsintown for their events, with the platform publishing 2.3 million events annually.
A marketplace of tools for independent musicians
The Bandsintown for Artists Marketplace launched in October 2025, and since then, over 30 partner integrations have been added to the platform to help independent artists better connect with their fans.
Beyond gig listings, the marketplace offers tools to grow and analyse your audience, showcase merchandise, and build more sustainable income — addressing challenges including navigating unpredictable algorithms and avoiding over-reliance on paid advertising.
It’s free. It takes minutes. Sign up now.
There’s no catch here. The core Bandsintown for Artists service is free, and the reach it gives you is extraordinary. Enter your gigs once, and let the platform do the rest — putting your live dates in front of fans wherever they’re listening, searching, or watching.
If you’re gigging in 2026, you need to be on Bandsintown.