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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 20 music venues
Best music venues in Shanghai
The 10 most notable music venues in Shanghai, 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
House of Blues & Jazz
No. 600 Jiujiang Road, 5/F
544 m from East Nanjing Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.465, percentile 100 of 20
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2
Shanghai International Dance Center
1650 Hongqiao Rd
303 m from Shuicheng Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.396, percentile 94.74 of 20
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3
Kee Club Shanghai
796 Huaihai Middle Rd
202 m from Middle Huaihai Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.360, percentile 89.47 of 20
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4
Oriental Art Center
425 Dingxiang Rd
412 m from Shanghai Science and Technology Museum station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.332, percentile 84.21 of 20
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5
Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai
No.1200, Expo Avenue
411 m from China Art Museum station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.327, percentile 78.95 of 20
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6
育音堂（Yuyintang livehouse）
658 Zhaohua Road
64 m from West Yan'an Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.305, percentile 73.68 of 20
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7
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Chamber Concerts
徐匯區復興中路1380號
208 m from Changshu Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.189, percentile 68.42 of 20
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8
MAO Livehouse
417 m from Madang Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 0.956, percentile 63.16 of 20
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9
Logo Shanghai
298 Xingfu Lu
746 m from Jiao Tong University station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.933, percentile 57.89 of 20
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10
QSW Culture Center
179 Yichang Road 宜昌路179号
626 m from Zhongtan Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 0.887, percentile 52.63 of 20
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).