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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 18 music venues
Best music venues in Baku
The 10 most notable music venues in Baku, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Soprano Karaoke & Lounge
54 b Nizami St
724 m from Icheri Sheher, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.361, percentile 100 of 18
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2
Heydər Əliyev Merkezi
Heydər Əliyev Prospekti 1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.192, percentile 94.12 of 18
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3
Baku Crystal Hall
Sabail District, Settlement, National Flag Square, AZ1003
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.178, percentile 88.24 of 18
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4
7Sunday Karaoke and Lounge
117A Mardanov Gardashlar
516 m from Jalil Mammadguluzade, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.166, percentile 82.35 of 18
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5
Benua Karaoke Bar
8 Rashid Behbudov St
308 m from Sahil, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.139, percentile 76.47 of 18
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6
Landmark Rotunda
420 m from Cəfər Cabbarlı, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.109, percentile 70.59 of 18
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7
Prime Karaoke Club
78 Hazi Aslanov St
472 m from Sahil, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.080, percentile 64.71 of 18
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8
PAPA Cinema
Azadlıq Prospekti 100
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.057, percentile 58.82 of 18
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9
41 Karaoke & Club
8 Fikret Amirov
363 m from Cəfər Cabbarlı, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.939, percentile 52.94 of 18
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10
Atlantis Euphoria Music Hall
Həsən bəy Zərdabi Prospekti 20
124 m from 20 Yanvar, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.901, percentile 47.06 of 18
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).