Guide
Musician website: what to include, and what you can skip
A musician website doesn't need to be big. It has to answer a few questions quickly: who are you, where can I hear you, when can I see you and how do I reach you. It's also the one place you control, whatever happens to your social accounts or streaming profiles.
Updated November 2, 2026
Short answer
A musician website should include your music, a short bio, upcoming shows, press photos, a contact address, an email signup and links to your streaming and social pages. One well-kept page is better than ten stale ones. Put the newest release at the top, make it work on a phone and add a press kit page if you pitch venues or writers.
What to do, in order
Get your own domain
Use your artist name if you can. It's the address you'll print on merch and put in every bio, so it should still be yours in ten years.
Pick a simple builder
A music-focused builder includes players, show calendars and stores. A general builder gives you more design choice. Either is fine.
Build the home page first
Add your newest release, a player, one good photo, your next show and an email signup. If you stop there, you still have a working site.
Add a press page
Put your bio, press photos, best tracks, a video and a booking contact in one place, so a venue or writer can find them without emailing you.
Set a reminder to update it
Check it at every release and every tour. Old show dates tell a visitor you've stopped.
What to include on a musician website
These work as separate pages or as sections on one page. If you only have one song and no shows yet, leave out what's empty rather than showing a blank page.
| Section | What goes in it | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Music | A player with your newest release first, plus links to Spotify, Apple Music and other services | New listeners |
| About | A short bio in plain language, starting with what your music sounds like | Everyone, especially writers who'll quote it |
| Shows | Date, city, venue and ticket link. Remove old dates or move them to a past shows list. | Fans and venues |
| Video | One or two videos, ideally a live performance if you're looking for gigs | Bookers and new listeners |
| Press kit | Downloadable photos, your logo, a longer bio, press quotes and your best tracks | Venues, writers and playlist curators |
| Email signup | One box and one line about what people will get | Your most engaged fans |
| Store | Merch and direct sales, or a link to where you sell them | Fans who want to pay you directly |
| Contact | An email address or form, split by booking and press if you have a team | Anyone who wants to work with you |
What you can skip
Most artist sites go wrong by trying to do too much, not too little.
- A long life story on the home page. Keep it to a few sentences and put the rest under About.
- Autoplay music. It's annoying, especially on a phone.
- A news page you won't update. An empty blog looks worse than none.
- Listener counts and follower numbers that will go out of date. Link to the live pages instead.
Make it easy to find
Your artist name should be in the page title, the main heading and the first line of your bio, so search engines know what the page is about. Write your show dates as real text, not on a poster image, because a search engine can't read them easily.
If your builder supports event structured data, turn it on. Google says it can make your shows eligible for its event listings in Search and Maps, and each event needs at least a start date and a location.
Your email list
An email list is the one audience you can reach without an algorithm in between, and a website is the natural place to build it. Offer something specific, such as new songs first or tickets before they go on sale.
If you email fans in the US to promote something, the FTC's CAN-SPAM guide says to use honest subject lines, include a valid postal address and honor unsubscribes within 10 business days. Most email services build this in, but you still need to give them an address to show.
What a musician website costs
Here are two common builders at their own listed prices. Bandzoogle is made for musicians, and Squarespace is a general builder with more design choice. Budget for the domain as well, though Bandzoogle includes it for the first year.
| Builder | Plan | Monthly | Paid yearly, per month | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bandzoogle | EPK | $6.95 | $6.37 | A single-page press kit with players, tour calendar and contact form |
| Bandzoogle | Lite | $11 | $9.16 | 10 pages, 10 tracks, 100 photos and music downloads |
| Bandzoogle | Standard | $17 | $14.16 | 20 pages, 50 tracks, 500 photos, music and merch sales |
| Bandzoogle | Pro | $22 | $18.33 | Unlimited pages, tracks and photos, plus music, merch and ticket sales |
| Squarespace | Basic | $25 | $19 | Its starting plan. Check its page for what each plan includes. |
From each company's pricing page on 2 November 2026. Bandzoogle lists a 14-day free trial. Prices change, so check before you buy.
How Traxure helps
Your site sends people to your releases, so it only works if those releases are there. Traxure checks your Spotify profile every 12 hours and your full catalog on 12 platforms every day. If a release goes missing on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, TIDAL, SoundCloud or Pandora, it emails you the before, the after and a note to your distributor ready to send. It works with any distributor, and monitoring starts with a seven-day free trial.
Prices and Google's guidance were checked on the companies' own pages on 2 November 2026.
Questions artists ask
Do musicians still need a website?
Not to release music, but it's useful. It's a page you control, it can hold your email signup and press kit, and it gives venues and writers one address for everything.
What should be on a band website?
Your music, a short bio, upcoming shows, photos, a video, an email signup and a contact. Add a press kit page if you pitch venues, and a store if you sell merch.
How much does a musician website cost?
Bandzoogle lists plans from $6.95 a month for a one-page press kit and $11 a month for a website. Squarespace starts at $25 a month, or $19 a month paid yearly.
What's the best website builder for musicians?
It depends on what you need. A music-focused builder like Bandzoogle includes players and show calendars. A general builder like Squarespace gives more design choice. Pick the one you'll keep updated.
Should my website be one page?
One page is fine when you're starting. Split it up once you have enough shows, press or merch to fill separate pages.
What's the difference between a website and an EPK?
A website is for everyone. An electronic press kit, or EPK, is for people who might book or write about you: your bio, photos, best tracks, video, press quotes and contact. It can be one page on your site.
Sources
Traxure
Know the same day, not weeks later.
Traxure checks your releases on Spotify and other platforms around the clock, confirms a change before alerting you and tells you what to do next. Seven-day free trial.
Pricing
Plans from $12 a month.
7-day free trial on every plan. Cancel anytime.
- Artist $12/mo
- Manager $69/mo
- Label $199/mo