Houston Event Music Research and Data

Avalon Music has booked live music for Houston events since 1993. This section publishes what we can count: the song lists of the acts we book, and public data on Houston's musicians and weddings.

Every figure names its source and period, and the method and limits sit on the same page. Each study comes with its data as a CSV you may reuse with credit to Avalon Music under CC BY 4.0.

Studies

• The Songs Avalon Music's Bands List Most

  41 and 40 of 71

  song lists include “Brown Eyed Girl” and “Play That Funky Music”, the two most-listed songs

  The songs that show up on the most song lists across the acts Avalon Music books, overall and by genre.

• Houston's Working Musicians: Jobs, Pay and Bands, 2019 to 2025

  $39.67

  median hourly wage, Houston-area musicians and singers on a payroll, May 2025

  What musicians on a payroll earn in the Houston metro, how many bands and music groups have employees, and how many performers work for themselves.

• Houston Wedding and Event Music Statistics

  5.8

  marriages per 1,000 Texas residents in 2024

  Key figures on Texas weddings, Houston's working musicians and the songs event bands list most, each with its source and period.

How we work

• Numbers come from scripts that read the source files directly, and a second check re-reads each headline figure from the source before a page is published.
• Public data is used as published. Where a source does not measure exactly what we would like, the page says what it does measure.
• We count songs and businesses. No private individual's name, address or personal details appear in this section.
• Found an error? Tell us through the contact page and we will correct the page and note the change.

Sources

• Avalon Music act pages, Song List sections, As published November 2026: theavalonmusic.com/genre/
• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), musicians and singers, Houston metro, Texas and US, May 2025: data.bls.gov/oes/
• BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), Harris County, private ownership, Annual averages, 2019 to 2025: www.bls.gov/cew/
• US Census Bureau Nonemployer Statistics, Harris County, 2019 to 2024: www.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics.html
• CDC/NCHS National Vital Statistics System, marriage rates by state and US marriages and marriage rate (provisional), 1990, 1995 and 2000 to 2024: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage-divorce.htm