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Apple Music now helps you keep up with concerts from your favorite artists

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Why This Matters

Apple Music's new integration with Ticketmaster and Bandsintown enhances the music experience by making it easier for users to discover and attend live concerts directly through the app. This development signifies a strategic move to combine streaming with live event promotion, benefiting artists, venues, and fans alike. It also highlights the growing importance of seamless ticketing and concert discovery within digital music platforms for the industry and consumers.

Key Takeaways

Apple Music has partnered with Ticketmaster and Bandsintown to surface upcoming concerts based on your listening, with quick links to buy tickets. Here are the details.

See upcoming gigs, get tickets

As my colleague Zac covered in his roundup of what’s new with iOS 26.4, today’s update introduces a few notable changes for Apple Music, including a feature that helps users “discover nearby shows from artists in your library […].”

That is in part thanks to a new partnership between Apple Music and Bandsintown, which shared the following in a press release:

With the release of iOS 26.4, tour dates will automatically appear on Apple Music artist pages and in a new Concerts tab within Search, expanding how fans discover live music while listening.

Bandsintown says that artists can use the Bandsintown for Artists platform to display concert information in two sections on Apple Music:

Artist Pages: An “Upcoming Concerts” section displayed when artists are on tour

Concerts Tab: A new section within Search where fans can browse shows by location, genre, and date

Bandsintown adds that “venues, festivals, and promoters subscribed to Bandsintown Pro also benefit by having their events seamlessly featured on Apple Music.”

In addition, this integration will allow Apple Music to send push notifications about upcoming nearby events, also based on the user’s listening history.

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