Songkick Concerts and Festivals is the #65 ranked events app on WordPress, as of Sep 11, 2026.
Songkick Concerts and Festivals is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by saleandro.
AppRanks data: Songkick Concerts and Festivals ranks #65 in Events on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 17% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Songkick Concerts and Festivals is a newly-listed WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Events category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. no published reviews yet means feature claims are unverified by the wider merchant base. Without a published review base, the only fit-signal available is the developer's own documentation plus the marketplace's listing-quality audit (linked below). Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by saleandro — established developer track record
Cons
- −No public reviews yet — fit and reliability are unverified
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How Songkick Concerts and Festivals works
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This plugin lets you display upcoming or past events for a Songkick user, artist, venue, or metro area on your WordPress blog.
Events can be displayed by adding the Songkick widget to your template, or by adding the shortcode [songkick_concerts_and_festivals] anywhere in your blog.
Features
Upcoming events for an artist
Past events for an artist
Upcoming events for a venue
Upcoming events for a user
Past events for a user
Upcoming events for a metro area. A metro area is a city or a collection of cities that Songkick uses to notify users of concerts near them.
Widget or shortcode format
Show events for multiple artists, users, venues, or metro areas.
Paginated list of events
HTML markup with support for events as defined by Schema.org
Requirements
This plugin uses a non-commercial Songkick API key. If you have a commercial website, you’ll need your own Songkick API key. Please read through Songkick’s API terms of use. Apply for a key here: Songkick API docs
This plugin requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher
Settings Go to the Settings page to configure default options for the plugin. You can also specify your settings under Plugins/Widget or via shortcode options.
For a user, simply put your username in the admin interface.
For an artist, you should use the artist’s Songkick id, as shown in the url for your artist page. For example, the url “http://www.songkick.com/artists/123-your-name” has the id “123”.
The same goes for metro areas: “http://www.songkick.com/metro_areas/123-city-name” has the id “123”.
And venues: “http://www.songkick.com/venues/123-venue-name” has the id “123”.
Widget Go to the admin Widgets page and simply drag the widget into a sidebar and configure it.
Shortcode Add the shortcode [songkick_concerts_and_festivals] in the content of any blog post.
When using a shortcode, you can set which artist, venue, metro area, or user you want to display events for, allowing you to show events for different entities:
Users: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_username songkick_id_type=user]
Artists: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_artist_id songkick_id_type=artist]
Venues: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_venue_id songkick_id_type=venue]
Metro areas: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_metro_area_id songkick_id_type=metro_area]
Override shortcode settings:
gigography=true|false
number_of_events=integer
show_pagination=true|false
no_calendar_style=true|false — removes the calendar style from the event dates
order=asc|desc – sort order for artist or user events
PHP code You can call the shortcode method directly in your PHP code:
Blogs using this plugin Know any blogs using this plugin? Let me know!
Contribute This is an open source project that I maintain during my spare time. I welcome contributions!
The code lives on Github. To send your contribution, fork my project, make your lovely changes, and send me a pull request. Thanks 🙂
Category rankings
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Competitors & alternatives
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Where Songkick Concerts and Festivals stands in the Events category
Songkick Concerts and Festivals ranks #65 of 399 apps in the Events category, placing it in the top 17% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Songkick Concerts and Festivals?
Songkick Concerts and Festivals is an app for WordPress. It is published on WordPress Plugin Directory and tracked by AppRanks, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Events category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by saleandro.
Who uses Songkick Concerts and Festivals?
Currently around 500 active stores have installed Songkick Concerts and Festivals. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Events category on WordPress.
Where does Songkick Concerts and Festivals rank on WordPress?
Songkick Concerts and Festivals currently sits at position #65 in the Events category on WordPress. That places it in the top 16% of 399 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.