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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 21 music venues
Best music venues in Dubai
The 10 most notable music venues in Dubai, 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
Coca-Cola Arena
Emirates Park Tower 2
522 m from Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall (Dubai Metro), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.193, percentile 100 of 21
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2
Honeycomb Hi-Fi
Pullman Dubai Downtown - Level 2
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.182, percentile 95 of 21
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3
The Theater Dubai
The Theater Dubai - Fairmont Hotel - Trade Centre 1
248 m from World Trade Centre, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.174, percentile 90 of 21
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4
Jass Lounge
DIFC gate 2
424 m from Emirates Towers, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.141, percentile 85 of 21
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5
Dubai Opera
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Blvd
693 m from Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall (Dubai Metro), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.139, percentile 80 of 21
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6
The Square Dubai
The Square @ISD, Dubai Sports City
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.119, percentile 75 of 21
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7
Concert Hall in STEINWAY & SONS DUBAI
Str. 8 - Showroom 33 - opposite Al Serkal Avenue
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.090, percentile 70 of 21
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8
Terra Solis Dubai
Exit 29 - Jebel Ali - Lehbab Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.062, percentile 65 of 21
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9
Hibiki Music Lounge, Hyatt Regency Dubai
Al Khaleej St
457 m from Gold Souq, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.006, percentile 60 of 21
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10
The Other Office Karaoke
3rd Floor - Gulf Court Hotel, شارع أبراج
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.995, percentile 55 of 21
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).