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# Songkick Adds $15M From Access Industries To Expand Concert Discovery, Artist Ticketing
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/songkick-adds-15m-from-access-industries-to-expand-concert-discovery-artist-ticketing/
- Published: 2016-08-25T14:51:52.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-25T14:51:52.000Z
- Description: Songkick has added $15 million in funding. The startup has established itself as a leader in online concert listings, thanks to partnerships with Spotify, MTV, YouTube, SoundCloud and others. But efforts. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/08/songkick-adds-15m-from-access-indust
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Live & Ticketing, Music Business, Music Tech, Startups & Funding, Apple Inc., Conference call, Initial public offering, IOS, List of online music databases, record label, Sony, Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:22

[![Songkick square](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c88bec67970b-150wi "Songkick square")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c88bec67970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Songkick has added **$15 million** in funding. The startup has established itself as **a leader in online concert listings,** thanks to partnerships with Spotify, MTV, YouTube, SoundCloud and others. But efforts to expand its artist ticketing platform have been slowed by Ticketmaster and other established players.

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Songkick has added $15 million in new funding from Access Industries. Billionaire Len Blavatnik's Access is also the owner of the Warner Music Group and an investor in Deezer, Shazam and Beats.

[![Songkick_logo](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d2159e29970c-350wi "Songkick_logo")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d2159e29970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

Including the new cash infusion, Songkick has raised $60 million to date, with Access leading the way including $10 million in December 2015 and $19.2 million in June of 2015 for a total investment of $44.2 million.

Songkick boasts 12 million monthly users viewing concerts by 135,000 artists globally.The company plans to use the funds to grow the platform and ticket sales efforts, including proprietary anti-scalping technology which Adele used successfully to greatly reduce secondary ticketing on her recent arena tour. 

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