Trends · data through September 2026

Music Venues in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 420 stores from 382 music venue chains in the United Kingdom. Higher Ground grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Dome and The Foundry.

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
382
Tracked stores
420
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. Higher Ground and The Dome sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Higher Ground ▲1 +18.0%
2 T The Dome - -9.7%
3 T The Foundry - -16.7%
4 T The Meadows ▼1 -18.2%
5 O O2 Academy - -19.1%
6 T The Criterion - -21.6%
7 T The Camel - -22.7%
  • Wales Millennium Centre
  • O2 Academy
  • BH Live
  • WIG Bath
  • Wanza Leicester
  • The O2
  • Co-op Live
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

420 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Wales Millennium Centre (1)
  • O2 Academy (6)
  • BH Live (1)
  • WIG Bath (1)
  • Wanza Leicester (1)
  • The O2 (1)
  • Co-op Live (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 T The Foundry 7
  • 2 O O2 Academy 6
  • 3 T The Criterion 5
  • 4 T The Factory 3
  • 5 T The Camel 3
  • 6 H Higher Ground 3
  • 7 T The Meadows 3
  • 8 T The Dome 3
  • 9 S Scruffy Murphy's 2
  • 10 T The Premier 2
  • 11 B Black Cat 2
  • 12 A Albert's Shed 2
  • 13 E EartH 2
  • 14 W Wembley Arena logo Wembley Arena 2
  • 15 T The Castle & Falcon 2
  • 16 T The Stage 2
  • 17 T The Hall 2
  • 18 T The Providence Inn 2
  • 19 T The Masonic 2
  • 20 L Liquid 2
  • 21 A Axis 2
  • 22 L London International Choir 1
  • 23 T The Old Willow Works Wedding & Conference Venue 1
  • 24 B Bournemouth International Centre logo Bournemouth International Centre 1
  • 25 G G Live 1
  • 26 S Smile Bar and Venue 1
  • 27 L Lucky Voice 1
  • 28 T The Singing Canary 1
  • 29 T The Second Fiddle 1
  • 30 S Strathmore 1
  • 31 B Bournemouth 7s Festival 1
  • 32 N Norwich Arts Centre 1
  • 33 I Invisible Wind Factory logo Invisible Wind Factory 1
  • 34 U Unlocked Shoreditch 1
  • 35 G Grace's Glasgow Irish Centre 1
  • 36 W Wellington Place Leeds 1
  • 37 C Cambridge Corn Exchange 1
  • 38 O O2 Guildhall Southampton 1
  • 39 B Birdwell Venue 1
  • 40 H Hothorpe Hall 1
  • 41 O Oldfield Forge 1
  • 42 6 606 Club 1
  • 43 B Beacon Arts Centre 1
  • 44 B Brudenell Social Club 1
  • 45 B BuckBuck Entertainment 1
  • 46 E End Of The Road Festival 1
  • 47 M Motorpoint Arena logo Motorpoint Arena 1
  • 48 M MK11 Sports Bar 1
  • 49 T The Bellwether 1
  • 50 B Bush Hall 1

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