Here's Every State's Favorite Band (from Digital Music News)

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If you want a better idea of unique music tastes across the United States, then take a look at this map. Paul Lamere, Director of Developer Platform at The Echo Nest, created the map and posted it on his blog.

Lamere used data from Spotify and a “range of data services” to compare musical preferences by region, state, and across the United States. He compared differences across regional and state preferences to figure out which artists were uniquely popular in different locations. In his own words:

[q]“For this study, I sampled the listening preferences of about a quarter million listeners that have a zip code associated with their account. I aggregated these listeners into regions (state, regional and all-US). To compare regions I look at the top-N most popular artists in each region and look for artists that have a substantial change in rank between the two regions. These artists are the artists that define the taste for the region.”

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totally fascinating. but not every state's favorite band, for whatever it's worth. quite interesting, for example, to see, that bruce springsteen is only the 23rd most popular artist in new jersey.

yeah pretty fascinating stuff. i like how some of them are what you'd expect to an almost comical degree, while others are totally surprising.