Apple shares new live music discovery features to Apple Music and Maps, the company announced on Tuesday, with Apple Maps launching city-specific music guides featuring curated concert venue lists, while Apple Music is now making playlists tied to artists’ ongoing set lists for their tours, according to Rolling Stone.
Apple Music’s new feature, called Set Lists, also provides upcoming dates for artists’ concerts with links to buy tickets. With Set Lists, Apple Music is looking to catch up with Spotify and its Live Events hub, which got an update last year and offers similar curation and ticket link features. (A few months after its update, Spotify tested its own ticketing service; Apple has made no indication it would be rolling out any similar plan.) TikTok launched a similar feature of its own last year, partnering with Ticketmaster to try and sell tickets directly on TikTok. As digital companies continue to capitalize on artist-fan interactions and commerce, features like these are growing increasingly more common.
