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Spotify Unveils Musical Map of the World. Map analyzes nearly 20 billion tracks to show localized listening trends for 1,000+ cities. Live map automatically updates bi-weekly and is embeddable
Spotify recently unveiled Musical Map: Cities of the World – an interactive visual guide of how people listen to music in different cities around the world. The map features nearly 1,000 city-specific playlists that reflect each area’s unique musical preferences. Spotify created the map based on music that is “distinctive” to each area – meaning songs that are listened to frequently in specific cities that are not frequently listened to in others.
The Map automatically updates every two weeks, allowing listeners to musically travel the globe and to stay on the pulse of each city’s unique music scene. Each update involves analyzing nearly 20 billion tracks listened to by Spotify users.
Top global listening trends revealed by the Map include:
· The World Loves Hip Hop – this genre showed up on playlists more than all other genres, regardless of geography or language.
· Local Rules – local artists are excessively popular in the areas where they reside, across all musical genres.
Some of today’s trending musicians across major U.S. cities include:
Some of today’s trending musicians across major U.S. cities include:
- New York, New Yorkis craving The Chainsmokers
- Los Angelescan’t get enough of Grupo Maximo Grado
- Miamiis loving Gente De Zona
- Atlantais listening to Tamia
- Chicagois a fan of King Louie
- Philadelphiais listening to Meek Mill
And from cities around the world:
- Berlinis trending toward the stylings of Mia
- Rio de Janeirois loving Mc Nego do Borel
- Londonfavors the sounds of Jamie xx
- Sydneyhas Spotify fans checking out Golden Features
- Singapore’s charts dominated by The Sam Willowsand Charlie Lim
- Malaysiais listening to the likes of the ever classic, Sudirman
Musical Map: Cities of the World
Malaysia
Singapore
Listeners can also see a streamlined list of ‘Musical Map: Cities of the World’ here, including playlists for all featured cities: http://everynoise.com/everyplace.cgi. Learn more about the Musical Map on the Spotify Insights blog here.
