Trends · data through September 2026

Music Venues in the United States

Iceflower tracks 2,587 stores from 2,283 music venue chains in the United States. Warner Theatre grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Elsewhere 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
2,283
Tracked stores
2,587
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. Warner Theatre and Elsewhere sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Warner Theatre ▲3 +19.1%
2 Elsewhere ▲4 +15.3%
3 Riviera Theatre ▲4 +14.5%
4 Time ▲1 +11.4%
5 Black Cat - +9.2%
6 Paper Tiger ▲3 +9.1%
7 The Foundry ▲1 +8.7%
8 City Winery - +7.7%
9 The Armory ▲1 +6.4%
10 Saturn - +6.3%
11 The Blue Room - +5.2%
12 Shamrock Lounge ▲1 +3.5%
13 The Bullpen ▲1 +2.5%
14 Culture ▼1 +1.9%
15 The Factory ▼1 -1.8%
  • Foxwoods Fox Theater
  • Harrah's Lake Tahoe
  • City Winery
  • Ruoff Music Center
  • The Orleans Hotel & Casino
  • Dr Philips Center of the Performing Arts
  • Summerfest
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,587 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 82 of the 2,587 stores (3%); 2,145 of the 2,283 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Foxwoods Fox Theater (1)
  • 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)
  • Summerfest (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 The Foundry 28
  • 2 The Factory 21
  • 3 House of Blues 12
  • 4 The Armory 11
  • 5 The Bullpen 10
  • 6 The Meadows 9
  • 7 The Blue Room 9
  • 8 Culture 8
  • 9 City Winery 7
  • 10 SPACE 6
  • 11 Black Cat 6
  • 12 The Blue Note 5
  • 13 Axis 4
  • 14 The Complex 4
  • 15 Metro Bar 4
  • 16 The Dome 4
  • 17 The Fillmore 4
  • 18 Paper Tiger 4
  • 19 Saturn 3
  • 20 Time 3
  • 21 The Intersection 3
  • 22 Warner Theatre 3
  • 23 Stage West 3
  • 24 Shamrock Lounge 3
  • 25 The State Theatre 3
  • 26 Fort Myers 3
  • 27 FIVE 3
  • 28 Riviera Theatre 3
  • 29 Club Rodeo Midway 3
  • 30 The Vanguard 3
  • 31 Elsewhere 3
  • 32 Hard Rock Live 2
  • 33 Harrah's Lake Tahoe 2
  • 34 Akiko's 2
  • 35 Big Pink 2
  • 36 Celebrity Theatre 2
  • 37 Boston Symphony Orchestra 2
  • 38 Empire Live 2
  • 39 Daiquiriville 2
  • 40 Chorus Karaoke 2
  • 41 Revolution Hall 2
  • 42 Meow Wolf 2
  • 43 Carnegie Science Center 2
  • 44 Four Seasons Arts 1
  • 45 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 1
  • 46 Fifth & Elm Portland, Texas 1
  • 47 Reggies 1
  • 48 Corpus Christi Comic Con 1
  • 49 The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians 1
  • 50 Mercury Ballroom 1

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