Market · Philadelphia metro · within 25 miles
The Philadelphia market books about 1,020 shows a year across 726 venues, with 676 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 37%, ahead of Variety / Tribute at 12%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 50% of the year. September is the peak month. Johnny Brenda's is the most-booked venue, with 114 shows on record. The market covers Philadelphia and 149 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Wilmington, West Chester and Doylestown.
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 Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Philadelphia that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Nearest markets
Questions
Cultivate tracks 726 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from bar stages to arenas, with about 1,020 shows in the last twelve months and 676 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 431 shows fall on a Saturday, against 65 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 50% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 37% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Variety / Tribute at 12%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, with 114 shows on record and 52 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Philadelphia data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Philadelphia and every other market in the country.