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Spotify will now start selling concert tickets themselves

Spotify will now start selling concert tickets themselves

Spotify has now debuted a new website where fans can now purchase tickets to their favorite artist’s concerts directly from the platform. There is no fanfare surrounding the Spotify tickets launch because it’s basically a test product right now, and it’s only selling presale tickets to a very limited number of artists’ upcoming events out there. The new Portal’s debut artists include Limbeck, Annie DiRusso, Dirty Honey, Crows, TOKiMONSTA, Four Year Strong, and Users. All the tickets Spotify will start selling today will come from the pre-sale allocations for the upcoming concerts of the artists.

Spotify already has an in-app live events feed where they link to ticketing partners including Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, and See tickets But the new events listed on the other website are not available on the live events feed yet, although that might change in the future. With this move, Spotify is wanting to become a producer instead of an aggregator to bring more profits into their business. This service might become a very important revenue stream for artists who would rather sell their tickets, helping ensure that the tickets are purchased by real fans and not by scalpers out there. The support page on the new service also says that buyers may not resell, assign or transfer tickets except in select states out there. Also, buyers will have to present a government-issued ID to enter an event, and they will have to transfer ownership of a ticket if they do decide to sell it.

Spotify does not have a lot to share at this current moment, since this service is basically just only a test and there’s no official launch date for it as well or even assurances that it might just make its way out of the testing phase and become a real product that users could use to get artist tickets. According to a spokesperson from Spotify, “At Spotify, we routinely test new products and ideas to improve our user experience. Some of those end up paving the path for our broader user experience and others serve only as important learnings. tickets.spotify.com is our latest test. We have no further news to share on future plans at this time.”

Spotify will now start selling concert tickets themselves

Spotify will now start selling concert tickets themselves

Spotify has now debuted a new website where fans can now purchase tickets to their favorite artist’s concerts directly from the platform. There is no fanfare surrounding the Spotify tickets launch because it’s basically a test product right now, and it’s only selling presale tickets to a very limited number of artists’ upcoming events out there. The new Portal’s debut artists include Limbeck, Annie DiRusso, Dirty Honey, Crows, TOKiMONSTA, Four Year Strong, and Users. All the tickets Spotify will start selling today will come from the pre-sale allocations for the upcoming concerts of the artists.

Spotify already has an in-app live events feed where they link to ticketing partners including Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, and See tickets But the new events listed on the other website are not available on the live events feed yet, although that might change in the future. With this move, Spotify is wanting to become a producer instead of an aggregator to bring more profits into their business. This service might become a very important revenue stream for artists who would rather sell their tickets, helping ensure that the tickets are purchased by real fans and not by scalpers out there. The support page on the new service also says that buyers may not resell, assign or transfer tickets except in select states out there. Also, buyers will have to present a government-issued ID to enter an event, and they will have to transfer ownership of a ticket if they do decide to sell it.

Spotify does not have a lot to share at this current moment, since this service is basically just only a test and there’s no official launch date for it as well or even assurances that it might just make its way out of the testing phase and become a real product that users could use to get artist tickets. According to a spokesperson from Spotify, “At Spotify, we routinely test new products and ideas to improve our user experience. Some of those end up paving the path for our broader user experience and others serve only as important learnings. tickets.spotify.com is our latest test. We have no further news to share on future plans at this time.”