Shazam is one of the best music recognition apps. It’s also a great app for discovering music from your favorite artists. Now, Shazam’s latest feature allows you to discover upcoming local music concerts and personalized event recommendations based on your Shazam history, and it’s really easy to use.

How to Use Shazam to Find Local Concerts

To view local upcoming concerts in Shazam, you must install the app first. This also applies to iOS, despite Shazam’s music recognition functionality being baked into the software.

Bandsintownpowers Shazam’s Concerts feature. As long as artists in your Shazam history have events featured on the site, you can see them in Shazam.

Viewing Shazam history

As of writing, Shazam’s Concerts feature is exclusive to the iOS app as long as you’re running the latest version. If you’re on Android, an alternative solution is touse Spotify to discover nearby eventsor otherapps for finding events.

Follow these steps to find local concerts on Shazam:

Alternatively, you may use theSearchbutton in the top right of the Concerts page to find local events. When you tap theSearchbutton, you’ll see a list of upcoming concerts. You can also search events by artists using the search bar and even set a custom date range and location. You can also see upcoming events whileviewing an artist’s information in Shazam.

Discover Local Music Events in Shazam

Shazam makes it easy to discover events in your area using its Concerts feature. Although it relies on your Shazam history to recommend events, it doesn’t limit you to that. You can use the search functionality to manually search for upcoming events from artists and bands in your area or other locations.

Shazam Concerts page showing a list of upcoming concerts

Shazam showing there are no local concerts from artists in Shazam history