Market · Atlanta metro · within 25 miles
The Atlanta market books about 749 shows a year across 378 venues, with 1,012 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 27%, ahead of Country / Bluegrass at 14%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 47% of the year. October is the peak month. The Masquerade is the most-booked venue, with 159 shows on record. The market covers Atlanta and 40 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Marietta, Decatur and Alpharetta.
Refreshed September 29, 2026 · from Cultivate's live dataset
The venues
Ranked by shows on record. Genre focus comes from what each venue has actually booked.
The shape of the market
What else competes for the night
Fairs, festivals, sports and civic events pull the same crowd. Cultivate weighs each one by expected draw and scores every night in Atlanta from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Atlanta on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Atlanta that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 378 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Atlanta, Georgia, from bar stages to arenas, with about 749 shows in the last twelve months and 1,012 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 400 shows fall on a Saturday, against 74 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 47% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 27% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Country / Bluegrass at 14%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
The Masquerade in Atlanta, with 159 shows on record and 82 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Atlanta data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Atlanta and every other market in the country.