{"id":191685,"date":"2025-06-17T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191685\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:43:12","slug":"london-has-been-named-the-worlds-best-city-for-music-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191685\/","title":{"rendered":"London Has Been Named The World\u2019s Best City For Music Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A night out in London might cost a bomb<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not worth it. Our city is packed full of grassroots music<\/a> venues, has created some of the world\u2019s biggest musical artists, and given birth to hugely influential genres like grime<\/a> and dubstep<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not convinced yet? A new study has just revealed that the English capital is the best city on the world for music fans.\u00a0Researchers at\u00a0SeatPick<\/a>\u00a0analysed cities around the world for their\u00a0number of concerts, music venues, festivals, home-grown artists and music-related businesses to give each city an overall music score out of 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taking the top spot for 2025 was London<\/strong>, scoring\u00a09.67 out of 10 thanks to\u00a0its 199 venues, 1,734 concerts, 44 festivals and, most impressively, 3,042 homegrown artists.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say that London\u2019s music scene hasn\u2019t had its fair share of challenges. Recently, the Mayor of London launched a \u2018nightlife taskforce<\/a>\u2019 to boost late-night activity in the\u00a0capital amid soaring operating costs and alarming closures of nightlife venues. Let\u2019s hope this taskforce can help keep London in the top spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just SeatPick that thinks London is a superior music city. The\u00a0Big Smoke also took the top spot in a\u00a0recent ranking of Europe\u2019s music capitals<\/a>, which also incorporated the number of nightclubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coming in second on the list\u00a0was the home of techno and Berghain,\u00a0Berlin<\/a><\/strong>, scoring\u00a09.55. The German city was followed by Chicago<\/strong>, Vienna<\/strong>, and Nashville<\/strong> respectively. Read more about the global ranking here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 10 best cities in the world for music lovers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. London<\/li>\n

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  2. Berlin<\/li>\n

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  3. Chicago<\/li>\n

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  4. Vienna<\/li>\n

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  5. Nashville<\/li>\n

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  6. Manchester<\/li>\n

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  7. New York<\/li>\n

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  8. Glasgow<\/li>\n

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  9. Seattle\u00a0<\/li>\n

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  10. Bristol<\/li>\n

    \n<\/ol>\n

    In pictures:\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9 fans at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the Cowboy Carter Tour in London<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Dua Lipa is opening a Radical Optimism pop-up shop in London this week<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0<\/strong>follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Stay in the loop: sign up for our\u00a0<\/strong>free Time Out London newsletter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A night out in London might cost a bomb, but that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not worth it. Our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,40537,393,4884,257,269,40538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-categories-music","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news-music","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114698767796396085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}