Give listeners a way back to your music after the show.

Your sticker is on someone's guitar case in another state. Your flyer is stapled to a pole you'll never see again. If the QR code on them stops resolving, whether a subscription lapsed between tours or the page you pointed at just moved, every one of those impressions is gone. Musicians print things that travel, so your QR code has to live as long as the print does.

What is the best QR code for musicians and bands?

The best QR code for a band is one dynamic QR code on your merch, stickers, and flyers that you repoint at the new single, this weekend’s show, or your latest drop. It includes destination editing and unlimited scans. A sticker handed out on this tour can still open your music page after you move it to another service.

Your sticker is on someone’s guitar case in another state. Your flyer is stapled to a pole you will never see again. If the QR code on them stops resolving, whether a subscription lapsed between tours or the page you pointed at just moved, every one of those impressions is gone. Musicians print things that travel, so the QR code has to live as long as the print does.

Kerry Kenny Band’s merchandise store includes a three-inch die-cut sticker with a QR code. A fan can scan your sticker the next morning and play the songs they heard last night. You’ve given them a way to keep listening without trying to remember a band name over the noise at the merch table.

Where your band’s QR code should point

One QR code, aimed at whatever you are pushing this month:

• The new single or album, the second it drops.
• A links hub for every streaming service at once.
• This weekend’s show or tickets, so a flyer sells the room.
• Your merch store, from the stage backdrop or the table.
• A mailing list or fan community, the audience you actually own.

Everything already in circulation follows along. You change the destination; the stickers, sleeves, and posters do the rest.

Recommended setup

• One QR code everywhere keeps it simple: merch, flyers, cases, the kick drum head.
• Or segment by surface. Separate QR codes for merch, flyers, and the mailing list let you compare them. Check ticket and music sales separately.

Built for people who print things that travel

The sticker on a fan’s guitar case may stay there for years. Your music page can move during that time. Destination editing lets you keep the sticker useful, and the QR code has no required subscription.

Graklink started with a musician. Justin is an Orlando DJ, a friend who needed a website, and that favor turned into this company. He runs jlrmusic.live, his QR code was the first row in our database, and it is free forever. The promise that came with it is the one we still make to everyone: a QR code never stops redirecting because of a billing event.

Make sure it scans in a dark venue

Merch and flyers get scanned in low light, over album art, in a hurry:

• Keep strong contrast even against artwork, so a phone can find the QR code in a dim room.
• Leave a clear quiet zone around it.
• Keep any logo over the center small.
• Scan the final art on a couple of phones before the print run.

Our designer machine-checks styled QR codes before you buy, and the full guide is here: why QR codes don’t scan. A merch-table sign and a sticker on a case get read at completely different distances, and how big a QR code should be for print has the numbers for both. On which to actually print, we compared stickers against signs and posters.