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.
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 its integration 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 when Suno and Songkick publish updated privacy notices or terms and conditions. The outdated policies linked to in last week's email date from 2023 and 2025 and still list Warner Music as the owner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 and integrations with Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Amazon and others, Bandsintown 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.
