Two rooms, same act

An act's quality is fixed. Whether it belongs in a particular room is not. This is the fastest way to see that — and it is the question a promoter is actually deciding when a guarantee is on the table.

Yves TumorChange

Currently reading Yves Tumor across 5 measured rooms.

Yves Tumor, room by room

Percentile inside each room's own top-acts distribution.

Webster Hall#1 of the room's top acts100th pct

Radio City Music Hall0th pct

Beacon Theatre0th pct

The Stone0th pct

Music Hall of Williamsburg0th pct

Yves Tumor is core to Webster Hall (#1) and outside the top acts at Radio City Music Hall, Beacon Theatre, The Stone, Music Hall of Williamsburg. The gap between Webster Hall and Radio City Music Hall is the whole business case for reading a room before booking into it.

A 0th-percentile room is not a statement that sales are impossible — it is a statement that the act and that room's local audience sit in different taste space. Those are different decisions.

Try a deliberately brutal pairing

The Stone vs Radio City Music Hall

Jazz lineage vs arena rap. Two stops on the same subway.

Pier 36 NYC vs The Stone

Hardcore rap vs experimental jazz. The clearest contrast in New York.

Beacon Theatre vs Pier 36 NYC

Roots and jazz guitar vs hardcore rap.

Sony Hall vs Barclays Center

Orchestral repertoire vs arena hip-hop.

Music Hall of Williamsburg vs Webster Hall

Indie post-punk vs experimental rap-adjacent.

Evidence — 11 Qloo requests · 11 served from cache

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acts closest to Yves Tumor

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Radio City Music Hall → acts that fill this room

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8F249D3F-8E99-4CFF-B449-97058EA194B6 = Radio City Music Hall

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affinity of one act to one room

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Webster Hall → acts that fill this room

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DC82F1E0-5BB9-42A3-B239-885829F7D115 = Webster Hall

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Beacon Theatre → acts that fill this room

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508987BF-01C8-4F85-AA12-BB24ED61311D = Beacon Theatre

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affinity of one act to one room

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The Stone → acts that fill this room

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E962A47A-8585-452B-8BB4-F53B5612D719 = The Stone

GET /v2/insights → 200 · 1 results · 401552331ms · stale

affinity of one act to one room

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Music Hall of Williamsburg → acts that fill this room

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F120AC41-430D-42A9-A2D4-9D73096391B8 = Music Hall of Williamsburg

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affinity of one act to one room

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