Bandsintown, the live-music discovery platform that’s quietly become one of the most influential tools in the touring ecosystem, has hit a major milestone: 100 million registered fan users. Spread across 196 countries, the platform now connects fans, artists and venues through more than 2.3 million live events — fueling what CEO Fabrice Sergent calls “the antidote to digital overwhelm.”

“People want to be taken out of their homes and their phones,” Sergent told Billboard. “Music is that antidote. It brings people together.”

Since launching its app in 2012, Bandsintown has “grown entirely organically,” Sergent said. “We’ve never spent on marketing. Our growth has come through the support of artists and fans since day one.”

That community now includes 700,000 artists and 65,000 venues and

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