Amazon Music adds concert listings via Bandsintown partnership

Amazon Music announced today that it is partnering with the live event listing platform Bandsintown to bring concert listings directly to its music streaming service. The new feature is rolling out now and will be fully available this spring on both iOS and Android mobile applications. Through this integration, users will be able to find live shows on artist profile pages within Amazon Music and click on “buy ticket” buttons to purchase tickets via Bandsintown.

The partnership utilizes two distinct integration paths to sync event data. Under the Bandsintown for Artists integration, artists must link their Amazon Music profile for the first time on Bandsintown for the automated event sync to begin. Separately, Amazon Music will automatically list events from venues, festivals, and promoters that use Bandsintown Pro. Bandsintown Pro is a marketing and promotion product designed for venues and festivals. According to Bandsintown, over 65,000 venues and festivals currently use the Bandsintown Pro product, and the wider platform has more than 700,000 artists and more than 100 million registered users.

This is not the first collaboration between the two companies. Previously, Bandsintown partnered with Amazon Music in 2023 to allow artists to sell merchandise directly on the music streaming platform. Commenting on the new concert integration, Karolina Joynathsing, director of Business Development at Amazon Music, highlighted the connection between streaming and live events. “Live music is one of the most powerful ways fans connect with the artists they love—something we’ve seen firsthand through the livestream performances we’ve brought to fans worldwide,” Joynathsing said in a statement. Joynathsing added that the partnership is intended to let fans discover upcoming shows from artists they love on Amazon Music alongside streaming music, catching exclusive livestreams, and shopping for merchandise in one place.

The integration places Amazon Music in direct competition with other streaming platforms that have already established live event discovery features. Spotify has been working on concert discovery features for years. More recently, in March, Apple Music teamed up with Ticketmaster and Bandsintown to power its own live events feature. Additionally, last year, Soundcloud worked with Ticketmaster to let artists list their live events on its platform.

Why it matters

Amazon Music is integrating concert listings to allow users to discover and purchase tickets directly within the app, a move that puts it in competition with similar features on Spotify, Apple Music, and Soundcloud.