Find cities to tour from Bandsintown fan requests

1. Open Insights in the left-hand menu of the Bandsintown for Artists dashboard and go to Top Markets.
2. Switch the Top Markets list between By trackers and By Fan Requests, and filter by location when you only care about one country.
3. Open Events Performance in Insights to see RSVPs and ticket clicks per booked show, filtered by venue or location.
4. Download the Insights data as a CSV report, then put it next to the tour sheet and match city names by hand.
5. Bandsintown shows demand and bookings on separate screens, so a city with many requests and no date, or a booked show with few RSVPs, only shows up after that manual match.

Compare our Bandsintown top markets and fan requests with the tour we have booked. Which cities have demand but no date, and which booked shows have few RSVPs?

1. 01

   Pull demand two ways

   get_top_markets runs twice, ranked by trackers and by fan_requests, with a limit of 25. A city high on requests but lower on trackers is called out: those fans asked for a show, not just a follow.

2. 02

   Line it up with the booked tour

   list_events returns upcoming dates. The agent matches cities, treating a suburb or a nearby city within the same metro as covered, and states the match it used so you can disagree.

3. 03

   Check the shows already on sale

   For booked cities, get_event_stats returns RSVPs per show. A date with RSVPs well below what that city's tracker count suggests is flagged as a promotion problem, not a routing one.

4. 04

   Add the trend, then stop

   get_follower_stats for 4 weeks adds context: total followers and their change. The report is a shortlist for the booking conversation. Nothing is posted or changed, and the agent says when the page is under the 100 followers Insights needs.

Demand vs booked tour, 12 Oct 2026.
No date, strong demand: Dublin (rank 3 by fan requests, 214 requests), Amsterdam (rank 5, 160), Glasgow (rank 7 by trackers).
Booked and healthy: London 28 Nov, 612 RSVPs. Leeds 21 Nov, 212 RSVPs.
Booked, few RSVPs: Bristol 20 Nov, 31 RSVPs against 940 trackers in the city.
Followers: 18,420, up 412 in 4 weeks.

• Bandsintown Insights starts filling with data once the artist page reaches 100 followers.
• Fan requests in Bandsintown come from the Request A Show button on the Widget or Smart Link, shown when the artist has no nearby events, and from the artist's Bandsintown page.
• Bandsintown says a fan request does not commit the artist to playing in that city.
• Top Markets in Bandsintown sorts By trackers or By Fan Requests, and a pre-filled geo-targeted post from that list is tied to a paid VIP feature.
• A Bandsintown post can target only one location, so reaching fans in five candidate cities means five separate posts.

Every tool here only reads, so it can run monthly from n8n, Make, Zapier or cron without waiting for your OK.

Sources: Bandsintown for Artists: Insights · Bandsintown help: Analytics and Insights · Bandsintown help: How Request A Show works · Bandsintown help: Message your followers

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/bandsintown/get_top_markets \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"rank_by":"fan_requests","limit":25}'

{
  "markets": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "location": "London, United Kingdom",
      "trackers": 2104,
      "fan_requests": 311
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "location": "Leeds, United Kingdom",
      "trackers": 1388,
      "fan_requests": 96
    }
  ]
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is bandsintown_get_top_markets. Example data.

• Add Bandsintown tour dates from a spreadsheet
• Reschedule a Bandsintown show or mark it sold out
• Bandsintown API and MCP server: every tool
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