Trends · data through September 2026

Music Venues in the United States

Iceflower tracks 2,554 stores from 2,249 music venue chains in the United States. Elsewhere grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Electric City and Riviera Theatre.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
2,249
Tracked stores
2,554
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked music venue chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Elsewhere and Electric City sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Elsewhere ▲1 +12.9%
2 E Electric City ▲2 +12.8%
3 R Riviera Theatre ▲1 +12.0%
4 T The Meadows - +9.9%
5 C City Winery logo City Winery - +8.9%
6 B Black Cat - +7.9%
7 S Saturn ▲1 +7.6%
8 T The Foundry ▲2 +7.4%
9 T The Blue Room - +6.5%
10 T The Armory - +5.3%
11 C Culture - +2.9%
12 S Shamrock Lounge ▲1 +2.8%
13 P Paper Tiger - +1.6%
14 M Meow Wolf logo Meow Wolf ▼1 +0.7%
15 T The Factory - -0.7%
  • Harrah's Lake Tahoe
  • City Winery
  • Ruoff Music Center
  • The Orleans Hotel & Casino
  • Dr Philips Center of the Performing Arts
  • The Foundry
  • Blossom Music Center
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,554 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Harrah's Lake Tahoe (2)
  • City Winery (7)
  • Ruoff Music Center (1)
  • The Orleans Hotel & Casino (1)
  • Dr Philips Center of the Performing Arts (1)
  • The Foundry (28)
  • Blossom Music Center (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 T The Foundry 28
  • 2 T The Factory 24
  • 3 T The Meadows 12
  • 4 H House of Blues logo House of Blues 12
  • 5 T The Armory 11
  • 6 T The Blue Room 9
  • 7 C Culture 7
  • 8 C City Winery logo City Winery 7
  • 9 S SPACE 7
  • 10 T The Fillmore 5
  • 11 T The Blue Note 5
  • 12 B Black Cat 5
  • 13 T The Complex 5
  • 14 E Electric City 4
  • 15 P Paper Tiger 4
  • 16 A Axis 4
  • 17 T The Dome 4
  • 18 S Stage West 3
  • 19 W Warner Theatre 3
  • 20 T The Intersection 3
  • 21 M Meow Wolf logo Meow Wolf 3
  • 22 R Riviera Theatre 3
  • 23 B Bethel Woods logo Bethel Woods 3
  • 24 F Fort Myers 3
  • 25 T The State Theatre 3
  • 26 S Shamrock Lounge 3
  • 27 T The Vanguard 3
  • 28 F FIVE 3
  • 29 E Elsewhere 3
  • 30 S Saturn 3
  • 31 B Big Pink 2
  • 32 S Strathmore 2
  • 33 A Akiko's 2
  • 34 T Time 2
  • 35 R Revolution Hall logo Revolution Hall 2
  • 36 D Daiquiriville 2
  • 37 C Celebrity Theatre logo Celebrity Theatre 2
  • 38 T The Fitz 2
  • 39 T The Bullpen 2
  • 40 B Boston Symphony Orchestra 2
  • 41 C Carnegie Science Center logo Carnegie Science Center 2
  • 42 H Hard Rock Live logo Hard Rock Live 2
  • 43 E Empire Live 2
  • 44 H Harrah's Lake Tahoe 2
  • 45 C Cat's Meow 2 1
  • 46 B Brown County Music Center 1
  • 47 E Echostage logo Echostage 1
  • 48 T The Shed Smokehouse & Juke Joint 1
  • 49 B Blackbox Theater 1
  • 50 T The Masquerade 1

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