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Media - Thursday, March 20, 2008

Concert SocNet SongKick Raises Further Funding

London-based Songkick has launched and says that it has raised further funding. It initially raised a seed round from Y Combinator, Songkick. Further funding has now come from Saul Klein (The Accelerator Group), Jeff Clavier (Softtech VC), Dan Porter (SVP Virgin, co-founder of Ticketweb), Peter Read (Music Nation), Betaworks (Andrew Weissman and John Borthwick), and other undisclosed investors.

There's nothing terribly groundbreaking here but Songkick has clearly done a lot of work. Songkick has thrown up a few ideas including widgets that show which concerts you plan on hitting, links to ticket sellers like Stubhub, a Battle of The Bands feature which seeks to track popularity of bands on Myspace and other sites, as well as personalized concert recommendations.

Songkick was founded by several techie graduates from the University of Cambridge: Ian Hogarth, Phil Cowans, Michelle You and Pete Smith.

Does Songkick have legs? For sure music sites like LastFM and iMeem demonstrate just how much traffic can be gathered by doing right by music. We also do agree that there is a difference between songs and bands vs. concerts. You may like some recording but have no interest in seeing a band live. Sites like LastFM and iMeem do not focus so much on concerts which gives Songkick room to own this.

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