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# 'Pirate' Suno Now Controls Your Songkick Data
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/pirate-suno-now-controls-your-songkick-data/
- Published: 2026-05-05T15:04:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-05T15:04:23.000Z
- Description: Controversial AI music platform Suno announced it has taken control of all Songkick's live music data and has plans to use it.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: AI, Suno, Bandsintown, Songkick, WMG, live music, Alternative data, live music business, #trending, Tech Stories

If you were a **Songkick** user, you've likely received an email recently with a fairly understated subject line: "What’s Happening to Your Songkick Data." 

Read past the legalese and the message is clear: **Suno**, the AI music generation company being sued by **UMG, Sony** and artist rights groups for **"massive copyright infringement"** now controls your data.

!['Pirate' Suno Now Controls Your Songkick Data](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/2026/05/Suno-Data-Theft-Allegations-2.png)

**'Pirate' Suno Now Controls Your Songkick Data*

Late last year, Suno acquired Songkick from **Warner Music** as part of its settlement with the music group. 

The email stated that **personal data** is now **"transferred to Suno**" who is "**the controller responsible for that data going forward."** That includes account details, artist and location preferences, and alert settings tied to years of concert-tracking behavior, as well as listening habits collected through itsintegration with **Spotify**.

The same day Songkick sent the emails, **Believe and TuneCore labeled Suno a "pirate studio"** and announced they were blocking distribution of all tracks created on it and other "unlicensed AI platforms".

### What Will Suno Do With The Data?

Suno now has a detailed behavioral profile of millions of live music fans, and based on it's **"easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission," track record,** they will waste no time using it. 

A new job listing to lead Songkick offers a look at how. It describes the platform as having "a well-established artist and venue data layer" and "a massive untapped opportunity to **reimagine what live music discovery experiences look like** when powered by AI." 

Their plan is to "execute an integration roadmap that **connects Songkick's live music graph with Suno's artist and creation ecosystem**" and "champion a vision for what it means to move a fan from creating music on Suno to driving live experiences on Songkick." 

**This framing — fan creates music on Suno, then goes to a concert — is a tidy narrative.** **Whether it plays out that way is another question entirely.**

More clarity about future plans could come whenSuno and Songkick publish updated privacy notices or terms and conditions. The **outdated policies** linked to in last week's email date from [2023](https://www.songkick.com/info/privacy?ref=hypebot.com) and [2025](https://www.songkick.com/info/terms?ref=hypebot.com) and still list Warner Music as the owner 

### **What All This Means** 

**Songkick** didn't just give **Suno** a list of users. The data transferred, including from Spotify, is a **deep behavioral dataset**: who fans follow, which concerts they've tracked, what cities they attend shows in, and what artists they love enough to actually buy a ticket to see.

But Songkick traffic has been declining; so the number of fans and freshness of the data is unclear. **Warner Music Group** took control of **Songkick** in 2017, but never made it a priority, and during the years that followed fans and artists flocked to **Bandsintown**. 

With 100 million registered users, [700,000 artists](https://www.artist.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and [integrations](https://www.hypebot.com/amazon-music-bandsintown-partner-to-turn-streamers-into-concertgoers/) with **Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Amazon** and others, [**Bandsintown**](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com) concert listings can reach more than 4 billion monthly active users. By contrast, Songkick's monthly reach was last estimated to be 15 million.

### Hypebot's Bottom Line

Songkick built its value on the back of touring activity and fan engagement data. That behavioral picture now belongs to a company fighting multiple lawsuits and accusations it built its AI model on artists' work without permission or payment. 

The data transfer email was legally compliant and technically mundane. 

**What Suno does with that data next is the part worth watching.**