Ranked shortlist · 10 of 11 music venues

Best music venues in Medan

The 10 most notable music venues in Medan, 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.

  1. 1

    Pos Bloc Medan

    Jl. Pos No.1

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.433, percentile 100 of 11

  2. 2

    Eleven Family Karaoke

    Jl. Jamin Ginting No.397

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.431, percentile 90 of 11

  3. 3

    Milo Family Karaoke

    Jl. Guru Patimpus No.8B

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.109, percentile 80 of 11

  4. 4

    Mandiri Audio Medan

    Jln.Glugur No.18F (dekat S.Parman) , Medan

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.919, percentile 70 of 11

  5. 5

    Studio 89 Family Karaoke and Cafe Lounge

    Mega Bisnis Centre, Jl. Gagak Hitam No.7, RW.9

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.893, percentile 60 of 11

  6. 6

    Inul Rumah Bernyanyi

    Komplek J City, Ruko J. Square, Jl. Karya Wisata

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.645, percentile 50 of 11

  7. 7

    Gedung Banuhampu

    Jalan Sutrisno 161

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.556, percentile 40 of 11

  8. 8

    K2 Karaoke Keluarga

    Kompleks Multatuli Jl. H. Misbah No.60, Kompleks Multatuli Jl. H. Misbah

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.510, percentile 30 of 11

  9. 9

    Wisma Menteng Indah

    Jalan Menteng 7

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.452, percentile 20 of 11

  10. 10

    LION KTV & Executive Lounge

    Komp. Megacom

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.427, percentile 10 of 11

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.

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).