News - 16/10/2017

Songkick to shut down its ticketing business very soon

Songkick to shut down its ticketing business very soon

Songkick sold its concert-recommendations app to Warner Music Group and is now preparing to shut down the rest of its business. The company will end its ticketing operations later during this month, while continuing its legal battle against Ticketmaster and Live Nation.

CEO Matt Jones, in a letter to partners (according to "Variety"), wrote:

I’m sad to write that on October 31, Songkick will bow to pressure from Live Nation and Ticketmaster and complete the shutdown of all ticketing operations (including the design and maintenance of artist webpages) we began earlier this year when Ticketmaster and Live Nation effectively blocked our US ticketing business. Our antitrust, trade secret misappropriation and hacking lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster will continue unabated.

A trial will begin in November, although some of Songkick’s original allegations have already been dismissed by the court, with Live Nation claiming that the claims that remain “have no legal merit”.

Songkick, by the way, will keep on living live on under WMG’s ownership, so what’s shutting down is the part of the business that was previously direct-to-fan ticketing firm CrowdSurge, which merged with Songkick in June 2015. Songkick and CrowdSurge were pioneers in many ways, from the former’s partnership with Spotify to sell tickets via its streaming service, to the latter’s work with artists on pre-sales for tours.

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