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Updating Your Artist Profile on Bandsintown

The Bandsintown Concerts app is used by tens of millions of music fans who "love to get personalized concert alerts, recommendations and messages from their favorite artists." In order to take advantage of all Bandsintown can offer, you must first make sure that your profile is fully up to date.

Here is how to do this:

Login to Bandsintown. Go to the Profile section, update your photo, fill in the other fields and hit Save to boost your discoverability and set yourself up to gain new fans.

 
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PHOTO

To add or update your profile photo, follow these steps:

1. Click on the camera icon to select a new file on your device

2. Use the cropping tool to zoom in or out if needed

 
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3. Click on the checkmark icon when you're done

4. Hit the Save button and your photo will be updated on your Bandsintown pag

GENERAL INFORMATION

Indicate if you're a solo artist, a DJ, or a band. Add what year you started and your hometown. Bands can add individual band members. To do this, hit the Enter key after each name. Fill in your bio section fully, as fans love to read about the artists they choose to follow. Be sure to add your music genres (more on that below) as they help us boost your visibility to potential new fans. Last, but not least add a list of artists you sound similar to.

 
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GENRE

It is important to update your music genre, as it is used by our recommendation engine for concert discovery by other fans. When fans are looking for new artists, the first thing they do is look through different genres. To do this, start typing genres and suggestions will appear. You can choose multiple genres. 

 
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CONTACT INFORMATION

Add contact information (artist, record label, manager, booking agent, press contact). This information is not displayed to the fans. We respect your privacy and will not sell nor share your contact information. This will only be used by Bandsintown members to contact you.

LINKS

Increase your exposure and drive traffic to your website and social media accounts by adding links to all of your social media and music platforms. Please type the full URL e.g. http://www.yourwebsite.com

These links include:

  • Official Website

  • Instagram

  • Twitter

  • Facebook

  • YouTube

  • SoundCloud

SAVE

When you are finished updating, click Save at the top right and we'll start using that information to help get more fans out to your shows!

Please note: Profile updates can take up to 24 hours to fully process and reflect on your public page, thanks for your patience.