Release status
Market coverage and release status
Coverage before certainty. Every market states what it has collected, what it still lacks, and whether anything has been released.
Release state
- Composite condition score
- Unreleased
- First release in preparation
- Concert affordability
- Unreleased
- Requires 8 qualified markets
- Markets in cohort
- 12
- 0 with a released figure
- Panel venues
- 29
- Target 20 per market
The Live Music Pulse is unreleased. It will publish its first reading only when twelve months of qualifying observations exist across at least eight qualified markets and all five components are valid.
Initial market cohort
Twelve metropolitan markets form the initial cohort. Houston is the flagship: it is built first, audited hardest, and used to prove the collection standard before any market is added.
| Market | Metropolitan definition | Panel | Bands | Coverage | Status | Hours of work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HoustonFlagship | Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 26420 | 29 | 5 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 12060 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Austin | Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 12420 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Chicago | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 16980 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 19100 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Denver | Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 19740 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Los Angeles | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 31080 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 33460 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Nashville | Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 34980 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| New Orleans | New Orleans-Metairie, LA Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 35380 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| New York | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 35620 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
| Seattle | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical AreaCBSA 42660 | 0 | 0 / 5 | Insufficient | Collecting | Not released |
Coverage thresholds
A market publishes a figure only when all five conditions hold for the period. Failing any one of them means the market reports its coverage state instead of a number.
- At least 30 eligible observations
- At least 10 contributing panel venues
- At least 3 capacity bands represented
- No single venue above 20 percent of observations
- No single band above 50 percent of observations
A national figure additionally requires 8 qualified markets and is the median of qualified market values, one vote per market.
Coverage labels
- High coverage
- 50 or more eligible observations, 15 or more venues, 4 or more capacity bands.
- Moderate coverage
- 30–49 eligible observations, 10 or more venues, 3 or more capacity bands.
- Limited coverage
- Some conditions met, but below the minimum publication threshold.
- Insufficient data
- Well below the minimum publication threshold. No figure is published.
Coverage definitions are versioned (v1.0). Changing one is a methodology revision and is logged as such.
Capacity bands
The panel must span all five bands so the measure describes the whole market rather than the arena tier that dominates trade reporting.
- AUnder 500
- Small rooms, developing and local artists, lowest entry prices.
- B500–1,499
- Club tier; the working floor of touring.
- C1,500–4,999
- Mid-size halls, ballrooms and theatres.
- D5,000–14,999
- Amphitheatres and large halls.
- E15,000 and above
- Arenas and stadiums; highest prices, lowest event counts.
Revisions
venue · toyota-center
Venue supply must use a defensible music-presenting configuration. The municipal source states 19,000 for concerts.
18,500 (basketball configuration) → 19,000 (concert configuration)
venue · white-oak-music-hall-downstairs
The official site states a range, not a single capacity. Point precision was not supported.
1,000 verified → 300–1,000 range, capacity unverified as a point figure
venue · discovery-green-jones-lawn
The official rental page states an audience-style range.
6,000 verified → 5,000–6,000 range
venue · nrg-arena
The cited NRG Park page returned 404 at re-audit, so the capacity is no longer independently supported.
8,000 verified (NRG Park official page) → 8,000 reported, capacity unverified
venue · smart-financial-centre
The operator page could not be re-retrieved and the maximum configuration is not a concert-specific figure.
6,400 verified (operator page) → 1,900–6,400 reported, capacity unverified
venue · miller-outdoor-theatre
A reference-work handbook is not a publication-grade primary capacity source.
6,205 verified → 1,705–6,205 reported, capacity unverified
venue · daikin-park
No concert-configuration capacity is published; the baseball figure is not a defensible music capacity.
41,168 verified → 40,950–41,168 reported, baseball configuration only
venue · nrg-stadium
The official site states a range only and stadium concert capacity varies by production.
72,220 verified → 72,220–80,000 range, capacity unverified
venue · houston-panel-secondary-sources
Wikipedia, Eventective, The Vendry, Indie on the Move, Discotech, Fever, PartySlate and Houston-Theater.com are not publication-grade capacity sources. Figures are preserved as reported values with their provenance.
18 venues carried a verified capacity from a directory or reference source → Capacity demoted to reported, confidence marked secondary
How the figures are defined and collected: the Live Index data collection standard · full methodology