Side Door helped artists earned $1.7M at small venue gigs

Again last year, Side Door helped artists and small venues connect, market and sell tickets. But the number of shows it facilitates and the dollars earned don’t make great headlines.

Side Door helped artists earned $1.7M at small venue gigs

Twice the tickets were sold to a single Taylor Swift show as Side Door facilitated all of last year.

But SideDoor proves the power of small alternative spaces to bring artists and audiences together in ways that benefit everyone financially and culturally.

Side Door shared these 2024 numbers:

• 385 shows – their best year yet

• 9,692 tickets sold – up 1,526 from last year.

• 231 new venues – including 87 commercial & 49 community spaces. Side door now lists over 3,300 Hosts.

• $1,763,650 paid to artists for 2500 shows since they started

Learn more about Side Door here.

Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, founder of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.