Spotify Puts VIP Access to Bands Up For Sale

Spotify has set up a deal with Bandpage, but instead of just selling stickers and T-shirts, the streaming music service is also selling private concerts, a Skype call with an artists, or the chance to party with your favorite band before a show.

J Sider, the founder and chief executive of Bandpage, described the Spotify partnership as the company’s largest yet with a streaming music service and said “It’s why I started the company.  I’m a musician from Virginia who came out to San Francisco to build something like this to offer to musicians.”

Bandpage has joined forces with music streaming services such as Rhapsody, and iHeartRadio, but Spotify is the biggest, with more than 40 million active users and more than 10 million people paying monthly for premium accounts.

Sider also said “The deal with Spotify is also about ways we can work together, and growth in the partnership will help to understand we have all these ways to display the right thing to the right fan at the right time.  It opens up a major opportunity.”