Suno acquires Songkick data

I’ve used Songkick for a long time—aside from word-of-mouth or simply following bands on social media, I’ve found it’s one of the easiest ways to discover local shows, and to record the gigs you’ve caught. In fact, I was scrolling through it last night, plugging in the shows I was planning to see and filling in the gaps of my schedule for this month. 

This morning, I deleted the app—time to rely fully on Concert Archives, OhMyRockness (for NYC), and Bandsintown instead.

On April 30, Songkick users were sent an email—one that likely fast-tracked to their Promotion or Spam folders, given that I certainly didn’t see it—informing them that all personal data collected by the platform “will be transferred to Suno, who will become the controller responsible for that data going forward.” This data is all-encompassing: account details, favorited and seen artists, location, alert settings, and the years of Spotify integration data amassed by Songkick.

Suno, for the uninitiated, is the leading company for AI-generated music. It’s currently embroiled in licensing issues with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, for obvious reasons. What does it mean, then, for Suno to own Songkick? Well, according to a recent job listing for a “General Manager of Songkick,” Suno views it as “a massive untapped opportunity to reimagine what live music discovery experiences look like when powered by AI.” Suno will be fully integrated into the concert-finding app: the “General Manager of Songkick” job description includes “develop[ing] and execut[ing] an integration roadmap that connects Songkick’s live music graph with Suno’s artist and creation ecosystem” and “champion[ing] a vision for what it means to move a fan from creating music on Suno to driving live experiences on Songkick.” 

In layman’s terms, this means uploading AI artists into the Songkick matrix—fast-tracking the AI siege on the music landscape immensely by somehow moving beyond charts and into venues. 

Songkick, owned previously by Warner Music Group, was acquired by Suno in November 2025. At the time, it was unclear what an AI music company would even want a concert discovery app for. Some sites assumed it was a means of collecting data. After all, Songkick boasts years of listening data from users, which undoubtedly would be an asset to a company attempting to reverse-engineer what human beings look for in art. It also, of course, could have just been a cash reduction in the settlement Suno was seeking with WMG. For the most part, however, the Songkick acquisition was overshadowed by the rest of the WMG licensing deal.

Six or so months later, the curtain is finally starting to lift. Yes, Suno is stealing the data we’ve given to Songkick over the years, presumably to create new AI slop that is tailor-made to fit secretly gathered user preferences. But given the new job listing, it goes beyond that. Suno is using the database of over 10 million users’ concert history to enable a “creation-to-discovery” pipeline. In other words, this is to create an infrastructure for AI music to become integrated with live artist touring. At the moment, it remains unclear what this would actually look like in practice. Unfortunately, it seems like we’re going to find out.

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