The Odds of Making it Big

[The Computer Audiophile]

Really cool visual article from The Pudding. 

 

https://pudding.cool/2017/01/making-it-big/

 

[Jud]

Very interesting.  This is bands headlining New York venues.  For this graphic, Small = <700 seats, Medium = 700+, Big = 3000+.

 

7000 bands headlined at least one night in a small NY venue.

 

400 of these 7000 headlined at a medium venue.

 

21 of the 7000 headlined at a big venue.

 

The 21:

 

A Great Big World

 

Sam Smith

 

Bastille

 

Lake Street Dive

 

Sylvan Esso

 

London Grammar

 

Chet Faker

 

Chance the Rapper

 

X Ambassadors

 

Mayer Hawthorne

 

5 Seconds of Summer

 

Chase Rice

 

Disclosure

 

Gorgon City

 

Houndmouth

 

Lucius

 

Mac DeMarco

 

Misterwives

 

Rudimental

 

Shakey Graves

 

Sturgill Simpson

[sphinxsix]

 

@The Computer Audiophile

Yep. Very interesting.You seem to like cool graphics (I like the new shaded bars  although I'd make them just a bit darker to the extreme left and the white letters just a litlle bigger). An average time of 'making it' to the big venue is 2.5 - 3 years. Not many succeed though. I also believe not everyone wants desperately to make it 'big'. You know there are quite many bands consciously occupying different not that commercial niches.

 

@Jud

Thanks, I think the important thing is that the whole estimation is for 2013 - 2016 period.

 

 

[Booster MPS]

I now have a new favorite web site!!  Thanks!

 

I think that it is interesting that many of the names on that list are still probably niche when it comes to what the broader world knows of music.  While we may know Meyer Hawthorne or Lake Street, those artist still are not "mega" in the big picture.  Take that in and you see the odds of making it to Beyonce status are even more daunting.