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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 10 music venues
Best music venues in Beijing
The 10 most notable music venues in Beijing, 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
Liyuan Theatre
175 Yongan Rd
351 m from Hufangqiao station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.418, percentile 100 of 10
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2
Blue Note Beijing
前门23号
180 m from China Railway Museum (Zhengyangmen), rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.284, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
Central Conservatory Of Music
No.43 Baojia st. XiChengQu
523 m from Changchun Jie station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.972, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
Tango by Ala House
亮马河南路18号 / No. 18 Liangmahe Nanlu, 2F
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.903, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
9剧场 Nine Theater
17 Jintai Xili
705 m from Hongmiao Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 1.883, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
DDC Dusk Dawn Club
北京市朝阳区神路街39号地下一层DDC
599 m from Nanluogu Xiang station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.793, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
北京音樂廳
675 m from Hepingmen station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.765, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
MAO livehouse
729 m from Shichahai station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.632, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
北京中央音樂學院
西城區鮑家街43號
478 m from Changchun Jie station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.353, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
台北纯K
工人体育场西路6号(工体西门南侧)
750 m from Workers' Stadium Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 0.996, percentile 0 of 10
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).