3473 (ya that many) Artists Ranked By SeatGeek's Proprietary Popularity Score

Contents: Top Live Artists 2012 | Top Live Artists 2011
About a month ago, I opened up our venue database of seating capacities in hopes that it would help someone conducting some very niche research. That turned out to be the case...I am currently working with a student out of Ball State to get him some follow-up data for a project. This interaction has inspired me to open up our database again, but this time with artists. Below I have sorted 3473 artists by the popularity of their live shows at this moment in time (think balance sheet, not income statement for you Finance people out there). You can see, Taylor Swift currently has the most popular live concert tickets in our search engine, followed by legends Elton john and Rod Stewart, followed by John Legend...

If you want a variation on this data for a story, research project, etc., reach out to me at chad@seatgeek.com

A note on concert popularity score:

SeatGeek’s ranks the most popular artists based on a SeatGeek metric that takes into account, among other things, ticket price, tickets sold and search frequency. Note that the popularity scores themselves are arbitrary, but the relativity between scores is what is interesting. If you are visual type check out our pretty infographics: The Greatest Artists to See Live or Which Decade Produced the Most (Actually) Popular Artists?

Most Popular Artists

100 Top Live Artists of 2012

Top Live Show Artists of 2011