France live music, 2026 Q3
In 2026 Q3, Ground Frequency logged 6,204 dated events at 829 tracked rooms across 157 cities in France. That is what our registry saw announced between 2026-07-01 and 2026-09-30. The current issue has TribeQa at #1 on the France artist chart with 90.6 — that is this week, not this quarter.
6,204
dated events
829
rooms with a date
157
cities active
We publish the quarter, not the change: our own event collection grew several-fold across these quarters, so a quarter-on-quarter line would report our ingest curve rather than the scene. Why we do not chart that yet
What kind of quarter was it for France?
rooms with a dated event, by the genre on their registry recordDJ / Electronic 416World Music 164Rock / Band 82Vocal 66Pop / Hiphop 62Jazz 36
Which rooms ran the quarter?
by dated events inside the quarter| ROOM | CITY | GENRE ON FILE | EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Toulouse | Toulouse | DJ / Electronic | 38 |
| Alimentation Générale | Paris | DJ / Electronic | 36 |
| Macadam | Nantes | DJ / Electronic | 36 |
| Fvtvr | Paris | Techno / House | 35 |
| Cabaret Sauvage Paris | Paris | Pop / Hiphop | 34 |
| Djoon | Paris | Techno / House | 34 |
| Virage | Paris | DJ / Electronic | 34 |
| Auber Garden | Paris | DJ / Electronic | 33 |
| Noct | Paris | DJ / Electronic | 33 |
| Club Calypso | Le Havre | DJ / Electronic | 32 |
| La Mécanique Ondulatoire | Paris | Rock / Band | 32 |
| Le Liebe | Paris | DJ / Electronic | 32 |
Which cities carried it?
cities by dated events in the quarter| CITY | ROOMS | EVENTS |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 260 | 2,130 |
| Lyon | 45 | 386 |
| Marseille | 39 | 325 |
| Toulouse | 31 | 281 |
| Montpellier | 33 | 254 |
| Bordeaux | 29 | 237 |
| Lille | 28 | 216 |
| French Riviera | 27 | 191 |
| Nantes | 21 | 154 |
| Strasbourg | 22 | 144 |
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Ground Frequency. “France live music, 2026 Q3”. 2026Q3. https://www.groundfreq.com/reports/france/2026q3/
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