Songkick (YC S07) and CrowdSurge Merge, and Raise $16M

Songkick is one of those services where I feel that it's a fair deal surrendering my data (listening habits) because I get a service in return that's really valuable to me. When I tried it out the first time I was surprised at how good recommendations I got for my geographical vicinity (Sweden/Denmark), as many services - naturally - focus on the US only. Three cheers from me to SK.

Awesome. I love Songkick !

And while Songkickers are reading HN, can I suggest a feature ?

Sending me news on my Followed artists.

Leftfield are touring and Songkick helped me get a ticket... but I would've also liked to know that Leftfield have a new album coming out ( Alternative Light Source ). I'm a bit removed from the scene and that would've been helpful.

If they made it easy enough I may have ordered the CD via Songkick too for referral fees

I've never heard of CrowdSurge but I use Songkick regularly. I'm also a consumer of their API. Both their website and API need a lot of work and I hope this merger and fund raise will help.

Might be worth adding the YC class designation next to Songkick (YC S07).