Shared Creation

This is  a quick introduction to Songkick, a service where fans help fans find music events. Its a niche market social networking site. Once upon a time something like this might have been a forum , now it is much more powerful.

It works like this; visiting the Songkick website allows you to keep track of upcoming music events across the country. Logging on with an account, lets you tell the site about new events, note that you are going to an event and communicate with other fans.

So far, so social media.

Now for the much more clever than average part.

All of this social networking builds up into an impressive database and Songkick is putting this to good use with the Songkicker application. This installs to your PC (or Mac), and integrates to some of the most popular media players. It will start tracking your music library and let you know about new releases and upcoming events.

This is a cool development – social networking lets fans, help fans and the bands they love. All the time you get to listen to your favourite music.