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Updates on the new edit form

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:17:00 +0000

Major changes usually come with different sorts of criticism. The new setlist add and edit form was no difference. We've been collecting your opinions ever since the start of the new edit form some two weeks ago and took your suggestions by heart. The edit form should now be both easier to use for novice editors and more efficient for experienced editors. So without much further ado, here are the main changes:

One mandatory step instead of three

It's not necessary anymore to navigate through three steps in order to add a setlist. It's sufficient to add artist, venue and date in order to create a setlist. You'll then be redirected to the page where you can add the songs, but this isn't mandatory anymore as the setlist has already been created after submitting the initial form.
Previously there was a second step that allowed you to select tour and assign a festival. Now, this step got moved out of the creation process. If autocorrection is enabled (it's enabled by default), the tour will be selected automatically. You can always add/edit a setlist's tour or festival after submitting the setlist or by clicking the "Edit tour & festival" link on any setlist or search result.

New edit setlist component

The edit setlis links got a nice little update. Click the arrow after the link and choose what you'd like to edit.

Hope you enjoy the updates. Feel free to comment on it in the forum.

Features Explained: New Edit Form

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:54:00 +0000

UPDATE: with your help we've improved the form further, please read the updates on the edit form.

Since the end of the last year, setlist.fm has a so-called responsive design, that aims to give you an optimal viewing experience no matter what device you're using.

The only part of the website that still remained "a bit" tedious to use for all other devices than a desktop computer was the edit form. So today, after months of testing and developing, we've launched the new edit form.

The new form is a 3-step wizard that should make it easier for you to add and edit setlists on both your mobile and desktop device. There's a new tutorial that explains how to add and edit setlists by three short videos, although it's actually quite easy anyway. Here are some features that aren't explained in detail but will help new and experienced users to add and edit setlists even faster and better:

Line-by-line form vs. big text field

On the third page of the wizard, there's a tab that lets you switch between the line-by-line form and the text field. If you don't like to switch tabs each time you edit a setlist, head over to your user settings and select "Text Field" in the "Preferred Edit Format"

Share your location on the "Add setlist" page

If you share your location, venues near you will show up higher in the venue autocomplete text field. That's basically the only reason why the page asks for your location. Less typing for you. We don't perform any other actions with the location you share with us on this page.

Power Editors

For "Power Editors" that add whole tours of their favourite artists, there's the option to display a "power editor form" after submitting a setlist. You'll find the setting to display it on your user settings page. You'll see that you're even faster with the wizard than you were before with the old form.

The green part is the "Power Editor form"

Assigning a setlist to a festival

We have also improved the selection of festivals. More relevant and nearer festivals to the venue you've selected are now preferred and we made the list pageable.

Losing your connection while adding a setlist

Internet connections on concerts and festivals are often very unstable. So adding a setlist at the concert itself might result in losing the connection midway through the concert. This then often gets combined with an accidental reload (or a reload triggered by your smartphone).
To solve this problem we use HTML5 Web storage to save your current setlist for you even without active internet connection.
You'll always be able to restore your edits as long as you use the same device and haven't submitted the setlist (in the latter case the setlist will be stored on our servers anyway, so there's even less need to worry).

So, now that you know more about the reasons why there's a new editor, please try it out and post your opinions - positive and negative ones - to the forum.

tl;dr: new edit form, have fun and/or complain in the forum

Features Explained: Search Engine

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:29:00 +0000

Well it's been quite I while since we've last posted something on this blog. But we thought it's time to give it another try. We'll be using this space here to explain to you some of the hidden features on setlist.fm, the ones that we use really often and enjoy a lot but need some background knowledge and/or clicking around to find out.

So let's start with one of the most used and therefore also most worked on features: the search engine. Here are some nice quirks you can use while searching:

1. Use aliases for searching

Whenever you're searching for a setlist, you can use common aliases for both artist and venue. For example if you're searching for "Bruce Springsteen" setlists you could also use his nickname "The Boss".

You can also combine this search with a venue abbreviation, e.g. "MSG" is an abbreviation for "Madison Square Garden". So a search for "the boss msg" yields this result page:

2. Filter the search results

Once you have the search page in front of you, it can be quite overwhelming. Especially when you're searching for a generic name or an artist with a lot of setlists.
This is where filtering (or so-called "faceted browsing") comes in handy. There's a box that says "Filter Setlists" on the left hand side of the screen - for smaller screens it's on the top and you have to click on the link that says "Show filter options" first.

The box shows search results by artist, country and year. The number in parenthesis is the amount of results found. In the example on the left there are 2232 setlists found for "Bruce Springsteen".

You can now click on any artist to show setlists only by this very artist. All other artists get excluded from the search results.

The same of course applies for country and year. You can combine the three filters if you want to. E.g. you could click on "Bruce Springsteen", "Spain" and "2012" to get a search result that only displays setlists for Bruce Sprinsteen in Spain in the year 2012 that also match the search query you entered (in our example it's "the boss").

In order to deactivate a filter just click the name again. In our example: if you want to see all setlists by Bruce Springsteen in the year 2012 for all countries, click "Spain" again .

You can even tweak this more by narrowing down your search result and e.g. search for "the boss barcelona" and then filter it by Artist, Country and Year.

Filtering works for every search result where the filter box is visible. If the box isn't visible then there's nothing to filter and you already see the most narrowed down search result.

So now go and search for your favourite artist - we'll be back with another feature explanation soon!

Albums now online!

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:59:00 +0000

Today's update is massive.

It has been the top feature request for well over a year - but now it's finally online: Albums!
If you ever wondered which songs from which albums were played on a concert - or will be played on a tour or how's the total distribution of all albums, then you will love this new stuff.

1. Albums for a setlist

A list of albums appear right next to each setlist along with a neat pie chart:

(this is the actual setlist, R.E.M. at Ehrenhof/Stuttgart)

2. Albums as part of an artist's statistics

We also integrated the albums in the tour statistics. You can filter by tour or by year. E.g. here's what albums (and the amount of songs) R.E.M. played during their "Accelerate" Tour:

(That's the page online)

3. Data

You might find out that the albums of your favourite artist have not yet been imported. Just give it a little time - over the next weeks, every artist's albums should be available.

4. Facelift

The pie and column charts of the song statistics were also replaced with the interactive charts that are used for the album stats.

Hope you like it!

Cheers

We need your help: please vote for setlist.fm

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:12:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:03:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:39:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:39:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:23:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:45:00 +0000

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 ...

... understand how setlist.fm works (the FAQ and the Guidelines are a good starting point),
... read the API documentation carefully,
... 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
... 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!

Introducing the new setlist.fm Forum

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:24:00 +0000

After working hard on the internals of setlist.fm for some weeks, here's a new visible feature for all of you setlist people: the forum.

If you've got any question how a thing on setlist.fm works or how you should deal with a special case in a setlist or if you just want to share your feelings about a concert, artist or anything - go ahead and post it.

The reason for adding a (some might call it old-school-) forum was simple: comments to a setlist are great, but they just apply to the specific setlist and some interesting discussions might get lost ... no worries anymore, post them to the forum. Or imagine if a person is looking for a setlist that isn't in the database yet, where to post it? The answer is: the forum.

We started with a few categories that might get adapted and enhanced in the course of time. Also, as it is with every feature on the website, we'll improve the forum with new features you'd like to have!

Hope you like it!

P.S.: To post new topics and entries, you'll have to have a free setlist.fm account.

Average Setlists now open to the public

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:59:00 +0000

We're happy to announce that our response to our feedback forum's top suggestion is now open to the public: Average setlists. You'll find them in the artist statistics, where you'll find a new row of tabs (see screenshot below) with the first two stats being the (well known) song statistics and the second one the new average setlist.

You're now able to see average setlists based on year or tour. As average setlists of all concerts ever played by an artist generally doesn't yield sensible results, we chose best not to show it at all.

Here's an example: Metallica's average setlist from 1984:

Hope you like it! And again, if you think that some average setlist don't make any sense at all, please leave a comment in the thread in our feedback forum. We'll then tweak the algorithm until the average setlists rock even more :-)

First birthday

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:32:00 +0000

On September 22, 2008 setlist.fm went online with its first version, an empty database and a lot of optimism. Now, a year later there are almost 60,000 setlists, 5,000 artists and over 20,000 venues on setlist.fm. So it's time to say thank you to all of you who entered setlists, edited venues, added artists and suggested features. You guys really rock!

After the major update last week, we decided to work some extra hours for a neat little birthday feature that makes searching for setlists even easier: search suggestions!

Have a look at the improved search that gets its suggestions from popular queries of the last weeks!

We also improved the OpenSearch-Plugin, which has been available from the very start but didn't get promoted a lot. Either click the following link to add setlist.fm to your browser's search engines or do it the (slightly) harder way shown below.

It's really worth adding, here's the plugin in action

Have fun ... and don't hesitate to post your birthday wishes in the comments ;-)

New Features on setlist.fm!

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:37:00 +0000

Good news, everyone (stolen)! After weeks of hard work we not only changed the server infrastructure but also introduced some new features:

1. Venues

That's by far the biggest change. There was a notable amount of setlists with weird venues. Weird as they were duplicate, lacked of city or country or just contained question marks.

From now on, each venue must be assigned to a city. The user interface changed slightly for this one, but should be as easy as it was before.

It'll take some time though until all previously 'dirty' cities are assigned to a city.

This way we can come up with some new statistics in the future based on club, stadium, city, region or country.

There are now dedicated venue pages listing all setlists of the venue and venues in the same city. E.g. check out

For those interested: we get the cities from the huge geonames.org database and enhance them with cities and towns that are entered manually.

2. A list of covers on artist pages

Previously it was hard to find out who covered who. Now it's easy - get on any artistpage and you'll find a box showing which bands/artists got covered by this artist and which bands/artist sang covers of this artist. E.g.

3. Improved search

That's somehow connected with the venues - it's now possible to search for setlists by venue names, cities and countries using the advanced search. Generally all cities and countries are displayed in English, yet it's also possible to search by their name in some foreign languages.

E.g.

A search for setlists in "Austria" using the German term for Austria: Österreich
A search for setlists in "Munich" using the Italian term: "Monaco di Baviera"

for some artists and cities, nicknames are also taken into consideration, so e.g. the funny query

fab four big apple will return all setlists of The Beatles's New York concerts

As a usability improvement, there's also a box for artist results that lead you right to the artist pages, e.g. this query:

A search for the cult

4. A hidden gem for you loyal blog readers

There's a hidden feature which is currently in beta - so we'd like to get your feedback first before we present it to the broad mass. In response to this suggestion on uservoice, there are now Average setlists for each artist that tell you what songs were played the most on which position. Check out how to see the average setlists and tell us what you think in the post on uservoice.

Hope you all like the new stuff - if you do or if you don't, tell us. Either in a comment to this blogpost, mail us, send us a tweet or direct message, add us as your friend on last.fm, become a fan on facebook or do all at once ;-)

rock on

It's about Michael Jackson today

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:34:00 +0000

This will be one of the days that will be remembered in the same way as the day Kennedy got shot, Elvis Presley died or John Lennon was murdered.

The King of Pop is dead but his music will live on forever - there's just nothing more to say.

Maybe you feel like remembering his best days today - here's a setlist from his 1989 Bad tour:

Michael Jackson Setlist, Los Angeles on January 18, 1989 (more Jacko setlists)

Perhaps you also enjoy this blog post by Douglas Newman who explains the impact of Michael Jackson on his life in a lovely way and also says that "only cynics can claim that Michael Jackson didn't have some kind of impact on their lives"

New stuff all over the site

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:15:00 +0000

During the last couple of weeks we dealed with most of your requests on uservoice and are now happy to present to you the new version of setlist.fm! Here in brief what we did:

1. Support Bands and Dealing with Festivals

There were many good suggestions on how to deal with support bands and festivals but most of them either contained having a designated field when editing or a new tag. We wanted to avoid that and did the following: Setlists of the same venue within the same couple of days are now neatly arranged in the new, wider right column. Just have a look at this Kaizer Chiefs setlist to see it in action. Just be sure that the name of the venues match, if you're unsure about the format to use, have a look at the new adapted guidelines. Support bands can also be found there (same venue, same day), see this R.E.M. setlist for an example.

Bonus: we also added a timeline right below the festival/support band/same day and venue feature - showing the concerts before and after the one you're currently looking at

2. Links on setlist page to add setlists more easily

For those rocking people out there who add more than one setlist of the same artist (and probably same tour) there are now two links on the setlist page. One next to the artist name and the other one next to the tour name (if present). Clicking on that will open the "add setlist" page prefilled with artist and tour.

3. Empty setlists

There was a request asking for a list of empty setlists to encourage users to fill them in. We added the possibility in our advanced search to limit your search to setlists with content or without content (non-empty and empty).

4. Statistics on start page

There are now statistics on the start page showing the amount of setlists (with content!), different artists (with at least one setlist) and tours. Already a pretty impressing figure :-)

5. Play the entire setlist

Clicking on the play button next to a song in the setlist used to play only one song and needed another click on the next item to play the next song. Fortunately that's no longer the case! The next song starts automatically after the previous one ended - so re-listen the whole setlist without further ado :-)

6. Bonus: Autocompletion for tour

The tour field now also offers autocompletion - but please be aware that all tours are taken into consideration, not just the tour of the current artist.

Tell us how you like the new stuff by either commenting to this article, by email or if you'd like to suggest new stuff, in our uservoice forum.

rock and roll!

Fancy Setlist Bookmarklet for Last.fm Users

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:35:00 +0000

Today, I was doing some administration of our feedback forum. First of all, it's great to get your feedback and suggestions! Thanks, you all rock! Please keep on suggesting your ideas. We'll try really hard to get your ideas into our site. We're sorry that we only completed 2 ideas so far. The reason is that we are currently working on a new project - top secret, but we'll let you know ;)

I felt really bad when I had to decline a suggestion - sorry for that, really. However, this idea inspired me to create a cool bookmarklet for all last.fm users out there. Clicking this bookmarklet on a last.fm event page (e.g. The Kooks in Munich) will take you to the setlist on setlist.fm - and import it, if the event is in the past and doesn't exist yet.

Simply drag and drop this link to your bookmarks and try it yourself: Last2Setlist

The Subways in Concert at Conrad Sohm/Austria

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:29:00 +0000

It was hot. It was packed. It was sweaty. It was awesome! Having rocked Japan, Australia and the Netherlands, English alternative-rock band The Subways from Welvyn Garden City finally made it to Austria and stayed for an evening at the Conrad Sohm in Dornbirn.

Entering the stage at around 10p.m. they started off Kalifornia, a new song from their 2008 album All or Nothing. They rocked on - non stop for four more songs - until the first chords of Mary made the crowd slow down a bit. But as the chorus roared out of the amplifiers the 500 people got mad again: fans hit the stage, trying to kiss Charlotte on the cheek and then got pulled down by the security personnel (one succeeded though), a tiny Wall of Death and pogo throughout the rest of the concert.

With a speed of 15 songs per hour, what seemed like no more than ten minutes, they left the crowd shouting for more. Guitarist Billy Lunn took his semi-acoustic and started playing Strawberry Blonde, a ballad about his relationship with bass-player Charlotte Cooper. The importance of this songs also reflects in his tattoo saying "Strawberry Blonde" across his waist. After a minute Charlotte and drummer Josh Morgan joined the stage to end the song together. Rocking the house then again with Boys & Girls, the Subways decided to blow the club into pieces by closing the show with Rock & Roll Queen. With an extended version consisting of some great singalongs due to Billy's infamous interaction with the crowd and his stage-dive climaxing in a shot of Schnaps and half a pint of beer on the bar, they finished the show with a translated version of the second verse:

Du bist die Sonne

Du bist die einzige

Du bist so cool

Austria is Rock and Roll!

Find the whole setlist on setlist.fm:

The Subways at Conrad Sohm, Dornbirn, Austria, April 2 2009

A scan of the original setlist is available on the setlist.fm facebook-page (where you must become a fan ;-)). The Subways promised to come back, I doubt, however, that the club will be big enough if word gets round how they rocked the house.

Another great gig by soundevent.at

Photo courtesy of partypeople.at

Phish reunion tonight

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:33:00 +0000

There aren't many bands with such great fans and such a cult about their setlists. Well there are The Grateful Dead, U2, Bruce Springsteen ... but only one of them rocks the stage tonight in Hampton, VA: it's Phish!

As we're on the other side of the globe (and couldn't manage to get tickets), we hope that some Phish fans will keep track of the setlist. For this special occasion, we already prepared the setlist page:

Phish reunion in Hampton Setlist

... hope you're all as excited as we are :-)

Setlist.fm hits the blogosphere

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:11:00 +0000

We had slightly more visitors last week, due to a blogpost on springwise - so we thought about tuning the site a bit, but as we had to do some other tasks first we decided to postpone it for a day or two...

And that was an hour before it happened: Setlist.fm on Mashable. Boom. The visitors skyrocketed for a few hours (well not the visitors but the numbers, you know what I mean) and we had to do some emergency tuning to keep the site up and running ... and of course we succeeded :-)

We were also very really pleased about the reactions the article caused, here's a short list of nice follow-up blog posts in different languages:

and a tweets best-of (by the way: follow us)

We received some really valuable feedback as well - so if you've got any suggestions for improvements contact us. Furthermore we're thinking about using a fancy feedback system such as uservoice to let you (the best users in the world) decide even more what features you'd like to see next. We're still looking for the best system though, so if you have experience with one, just post a comment :-)

More precise statistics, neat autocorrection and moderators

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Having realised that the song statistics for artists, tours, years and users rock but lack a bit of cleanliness, we decided to improve that stuff. Now the statistics not only base on the name of the songs but also on the covered artist (and are case sensitive to keep the whole thing even cleaner). Here's how it looked before:

and now the cover's there too:

The second new thing is an (optional) autocorrection feature on adding or editing selists. It uses heuristics of already present songs to determine which song was meant. Sounds complicated - well it is, but only behind the scences. Here are some examples how the autocorrection works.

If you come across users with badges next to their user name and are wondering what that means: either click on their names and read what it says on their profile page ... or just read on. They're moderators. Trusted users who are allowed to do a bit more than the regular user is allowed to do. And also if it comes to conflicts, they are the one you have to convince ;-)

Here's a list of setlist.fm's Roadies ;-)

Your own, personal, song statistics!

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:31:00 +0000

Again, a new feature on setlist.fm. Requested by Jay some weeks ago, it's now online, and it's even fancier than expected:

Mark setlists as "attended" and see your concert and song statistics by artist and/or year. Here's how it works:

1. Add Gigs

Add gigs simply by adding you as attendee

2. View your statistics

Navigate to your profile and click on "Concerts" - there they are!

3. Compare with other users

Go to other users' profile and look what they attended. A highlighted artist means that both you and the other user attended a concert of this artist. If a concert is highlighted, you even attended the very same concert!

Have fun with the new stuff, digg your stats, stumble them, Show them to your friends and - most importantly - tell us what you think about it!

PS: also digg and stumble this entry to spread the news ;-)

Now supporting Facebook connect!

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:39:00 +0000

News from the feature department: setlist.fm is now supporting Facebook connect!

1. What is Facebook connect and what's my benefit?

If you've got a Facebook account, you can use your facebook email address and your facebook password to log into setlist.fm. Then your friends on facebook can see in their feed whenever you

added a setlist,
edited a setlist,
left a comment and
more to come.

Of course you can choose which data to publish in your feed. And, needless to say: don't worry we won't save any of your personal data! For more details, take a look at the Facebook connect entry on Facebook's blog.

2. How to connect

2.1. Existing Users

Just sign in with your setlist.fm username/mailaddress and password, hit the connect button in the top bar and fill in your facebook credentials.

2.2. New Users

If you don't want to have a dedicated setlist.fm account and just want to use the fancy feed stuff, just hit the connect button and provide your facebook credentials.

If you've got problems connecting your facebook account, don't hesitate to contact us! And if you like setlist.fm - why not become a fan of the application? You can also discuss about setlist.fm-facebook features there.

MIA. in concert

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:17:00 +0000

After the relaxing but concertless holidays, the live performances are finally back - even in rural areas. One of the first bands coming back on stage in Austria was the very successful german band MIA. consisting of Bob (B), Gunnar (D), Ingo (G, KB), Andy (G) and Mieze (V).

As part of their "Willkommen im Club" (=~ Join the Club) tour they started the 2009 leg in Hohenems/Austria. The band obviously had a lot of fun performing as they broke the 2 hours threshold - they played 23 songs including 3 encore sets. Another highlight of the show was when vocalist Mieze asked a fan (named "Heidi" - very fitting for a concert in the alps isn't it?) to join her on stage to dance the Viennese waltz, the most typical Austrian dance, with her.

Here's the setlist:

MIA. setlist January 9, Hohenems, Austria

Another great soundevent gig. Check out soundevent.at for more gigs in the Western Austrian/Eastern Swiss/South German area!

Photo by partypeople.at

This year's top bands

noreply@blogger.com (Setlist.fm Team) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:37:00 +0000

The old year's almost over, time for a bit of summing up. So here are the top 10 artists (as of 1:40 PM CET) with the most setlists in the setlist.fm database - along with the great people that have been looking after their favourite artists and that are always keeping the statistics clean - you really rock:

R.E.M. - 789 setlists - bigdaycoming
U2 - 780 setlists - beau99, bigdaycoming
The Rolling Stones - 628 setlists - bbgun_301
Dir en grey - 397 setlists - beau99
They Might Be Giants - 214 setlists - beau99
Björk - 190 setlists - sicko
Alice Cooper - 188 setlists - michi
Red Hot Chili Peppers - 150 setlists - xxrobynx
Depeche Mode - 126 setlists - michi
Pearl Jam - 125 setlists - riazor

Thanks for all the effort and keep rockin in 2009!