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# Side Door helped artists earned $1.7M at small venue gigs
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/side-door-helped-artists-earn-1-7m-for-small-venue-gigs/
- Published: 2025-01-14T15:40:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-14T16:24:21.000Z
- Description: Side Door helps musicians and small venues connect, market and sell tickets. The number of shows it facilitates and the dollars earned don’t make great headlines.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

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](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/side-door-square.png)

#### 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](https://www.hypebot.com/side-door-offers-200-tour-support-payments-to-emerging-artists-in-us/) the power of small [alternative spaces](https://www.hypebot.com/niva-independent-live-music-survey/) 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](https://sidedooraccess.com/?ref=hypebot.com).

**Bruce Houghton* is the Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/), a Senior Advisor at [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com), founder of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com) professor*.