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As live music trickles back into our lives, a real estate website begs the question: What are the best music cities in the United States? Whether it's country or rock or electronic, the city you're itching to move to or currently reside in has its specialty. But where can you find the best?
Clever, a real estate site, compiled a list of the best music cities in the U.S. in 2022. To generate this list, Clever used criteria including Google Trends scores, average concert ticket prices, the number of small music venues, the cost of a monthly concert outing, how many music festivals are scheduled nearby, the number of working musicians and their average wage.
At the top of the list, unsurprisingly, is Nashville, the music capital of the U.S. Not only does Clever list the best cities for live music, but it also lists the worst — aka the cities that still have live music, but they might be charging too much or might not have enough small music venues.
Lucky for us, California mostly had cities listed toward the top. Landing in the top 10 at No. 8 is San Francisco. From there, we have Los Angeles (No. 19) and San Diego (No. 27). Towards the bottom of the list, for the worst cities for live music, were Sacramento (No. 30), Riverside (No. 33), and San Jose (No. 39).
To see the full study, click here.