Market · New York metro · within 25 miles
The New York market books about 2,035 shows a year across 2,242 venues, with 1,326 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 26%, ahead of Jazz / Blues at 14%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 45% of the year. September is the peak month. Count Basie Center for the Arts is the most-booked venue, with 124 shows on record. The market covers New York and 306 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island.
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 New York from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
3 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates 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 New York on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in New York that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 2,242 venues that book live music within 25 miles of New York, New York, from bar stages to arenas, with about 2,035 shows in the last twelve months and 1,326 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 725 shows fall on a Saturday, against 130 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 45% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 26% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Jazz / Blues at 14%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, with 124 shows on record and 81 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the New York data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for New York and every other market in the country.