We need your help: please vote for setlist.fm

We just got nominated for this year's "TechCrunch Europe - Best Music Startup 2010".

That rocks, but now we need your help: please click on the link above and vote for setlist.fm. We promise to come up with some cool new features if you do :-)

cheers

the setlist.fm team

New way to add Intros, Outros and Intermissions

Time for another update! One of the top ideas in our feature forum was "Be able to add intros without them being counted as songs".

We introduced a new tag today: @Tape. Whenever you annotate a song with this new tag, it won't show up in the statistics - but will in the setlist of course. Just have a look at the updated guidelines to learn how to use the tag. Or have a look at this Elvis Presley setlist to see it in action (the first song is a tape-intro).

cheers

the setlist.fm team

New Song Statistics!

First of all cheers to all who suggested and supported ideas in the setlist.fm feature forum on uservoice. We're currently discussing and implementing some of the most wanted features. The first update went online some hours ago: Song Statistics.

Simply click on a song in a setlist and get facts and figures about each and every song.

• Pie chart and list of artists that sang the song
• Date and venue of first live performance
• Date and venue of last (or most recent) live performance
• Bar chart and list of years when the song was played
• and that's just the beginning ;-)

As an example, have a look at (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones.

Hope you like it - and stay tuned for more new stuff in the next weeks!

rock on

the setlist.fm team

A concert map and enhanced setlist statistics

Due to popular demand - and because of the music craziness of the whole setlist.fm team - we created some new statistics for you. Apart from the song statistics and the new and enhanced average setlist we introduced some weeks ago - there's now more information about your favourite artist on tour: first off the concert map that illustrates in which countries your fav artist performed how many times. There's a screenshot showing the Rolling Stones' concert map below.

Click on a country and you'll get a detailed view of the states they performed in. Additionally there are two tabs "Covered" and "With". The former contains statistics on what artists and songs were covered - the latter lists which other artists joined your favourite artist on stage. E.g. did you know that Sheryl Crow joined the Rolling Stones on stage 12 times? Or that the song the Stones covered the most is Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"? Interesting, isn't it? :-) As usual there's the possibility to view the statistics per year or per tour, just click on the year or tour in the left column.

But there's even more: the stats described in the former paragraph can all be found in the "Tour Statistics" section of every artist. However there's a new tab: "Other statistics" that currently contains two subcategories "Covers" and "Joined". The former lists who covered the artist you're looking at and the latter lists guest appearances of your favourite artist. And that's quite interesting too - or did you know that Paul McCartney once joined Neil Young on stage?

Have fun with the new statistics!

Celebrating 100,000 setlists and 1,000 facebook fans with presents

Yes it's true, there are more than 100,000 setlists on setlist.fm now - and only setlists entered by users do count - i.e. the setlists our event_monkey imports automatically are not taken into consideration.

But not enough, there are more than 1,000 fans on the setlist.fm facebook fanpage now!

To celebrate such great news, we chose to implement the most wanted feature request from our uservoice forum: Average setlists are now better than ever plus they are enriched with additional information - statistics for

• show openers (first song of a concert)
• main set closers (last song before first encore)
• show closers (the very last song)
• encores (how many encores were played)

You'll find this information below each average setlist. But have a look yourself - e.g. Average Setlists of U2's current 360° Tour, Metallica's World Magnetic Tour, DMB in 2009 or Pearl Jam's Australia Tour last year.

have fun!

setlist.fm API

We're proud to announce the first version of the new setlist.fm Application Programming Interface (what's an application programming interface?).

The setlist.fm API has been designed to give you easy access to setlist data in order to build fancy websites and other applications. So there's no need for homegrown scrapers like this one anymore :-). Before starting to use the API, be sure to ...

1. ... understand how setlist.fm works (the FAQ and the Guidelines are a good starting point),
2. ... read the API documentation carefully,
3. ... apply for an API key (link for logged in users only) - if you're no registered user yet, then register first (it's free). You'll need the API key for some of the API's methods and
4. ... place an attribution link to setlist.fm wherever you use data from setlist.fm (as explained in the API terms of service)

If this documentation isn't enough or if you've got other things you'd like to tell us about the API, visit the API Forum.

Note that the setlist.fm API is, according to the API terms of service, only free for non-commercial projects. If you're interested in using the API for commercial purposes, contact us.

Please also note that this first version of the API is a beta version and some methods might be added/removed/changed in the future. As mentioned, just give us your thoughts in the Forum.

rock and roll!