The company sold most of its assets, including its brand name and the app that allowed millions of fans to follow their favorite musicians and see what shows were coming up soon, to Warner Music earlier this year, and it claims that the concert discovery tool will continue to work as part of WMG. The news of Songkick’s demise only comes as something of a surprise to those who have been paying attention to what has been happening with the firm recently, as things have looked troubling for a little while now.
In his statement announcing the sad news, Jones claimed that the company was set to “ bow to pressure from Live Nation and Ticketmaster ,” also stating that the shutdown of Songkick’s ticketing arm will finally wrap, having started when the two powerful names “ effectively blocked our U.S. Since then, Songkick CEO Matt Jones has been fighting the issue via legal means, and that argument is set to continue next month, despite the fact that the company will no longer be in business. Apparently, when Songkick merged with fellow concert discovery startup CrowdSurge back in 2015, Ticketmaster hired away a one-time employee, who took with them proprietary info, which was then used to lure customers away. Songkick has been at war with music industry titans Live Nation and Ticketmaster for months, battling the massive ticketer in court. Matt Jones, who co-founded Songkick back in 2007, released a statement which has now been picked up by several news outlets, in which he explains that Songkick will effectively be out of business by the end of October, stating that the beloved ticketer, which allowed many big-name musicians to sell passes to upcoming shows directly to fans, will bow to pressure from larger figures in the industry, which has been an issue for the NYC-based firm for some time now.
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