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Re: Music Fandom Maps

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Post by throwaway91111 »

excalibur wrote: post #11
hammock wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're using the word album, you're referring to "owning" music, and appears you're unfamiliar with any new music from the last 20 years. Time to switch to spotify.

I'm in almost the same boat. (I can name some Linkin Park songs, but I'm not thrilled about it.) I have of course listened to plenty of new music in the past 20 years, but at this point I rarely pay attention to anything other than new releases from bands I already enjoy (and limited attention at that). Today I primarily listen to Pandora, which I naturally have tuned to my own tastes. While it's surely attributable…

Ehh if you look back a lot of the music from any decade is crap. It's just easier to forget.

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Post by bluedino »

sushisource wrote: post #15

As with any map like this, the most startling thing to me is how the south really is a totally different culture, almost a totally different country.

It's a race thing - most of the country's African American population lives in the south, with little pockets scattered elsewhere. NYT did a similar set of maps for TV shows and the results were similar. White America likes hip-hop, as you can see from the maps but there's almost no interest in other pop music from the south.

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Post by [deleted] »

brookside wrote: post #7
the_cat_kittles wrote: post #5

are these maps using county boundaries? i would prefer something like kernel density or normalizing for county population or something... but still very cool. mississippi louisiana alabama georgia seem to be one pole, and everywhere else the other.

Likely correlating with race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African...

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Post by nissimk »

The integrated youtube videos are really nice in this page. I like this best as an introduction to music I haven't heard. I like Kevin Gates 2 Phones.

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Post by mfoy_ »

no_gravity wrote: post #13

Since I run https://www.music-map.com this naturally caught my eye. Unfortunately, there is no word on the methodology except that they did it with "the help of YouTube’s geocoded streaming data". Does anybody know what that is?

Why is it that on some maps the artist is very far away from another, but when you click on that artist the original one appears much closer?

Is the scale relative? Is there any indicator how scaled up or down the relationships are?

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Post by Shivetya »

Okay, took me a minute to understand it. So this is only based on Youtube views? I am more interested in radio, let alone if we could ever map iTunes sales to regions by song that would be impressive too. Another good area to explore is what are various college radio stations playing across the country?

With regards to youtube, some genres of music have been more aggressive using the medium than others and even some older artists have barely accepted the digital age fully or took a long time to do so.

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Post by iamatworknow »

Shivetya wrote: post #26

Okay, took me a minute to understand it. So this is only based on Youtube views? I am more interested in radio, let alone if we could ever map iTunes sales to regions by song that would be impressive too. Another good area to explore is what are various college radio stations playing across the country? With regards to youtube, some genres of music have been more aggressive using the medium than others and even some…

Would radio be a good indicator of what people are actually listening to, though? All that would tell you is what the station is playing, not how many people are listening. Plus, stations have their own motives to play (or not play) what they do.

From what I've seen if people don't have access to their "own" media (be it a Spotify subscription, iTunes, loose MP3, CDs, whatever) and they want to listen to a song, YouTube is where they go.

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Post by coldtea »

jbob2000 wrote: post #6
vmarshall23 wrote: post #4

Wow. Other than Metallica, I don't own an album by any of these people, and other than Metallica and Michael Jackson, I don't think I'd be able to name a single song by the few others that I do recognize the name. Oh, and I'm using the word "album". That probably explains it all ... :-)

Their analysis is biased. Young people predominantly use digital services to consume music, whereas older generations still use CDs and the radio. As an anecdote, the older I get, the less music I listen to. It used to be a big part of my identity, but now I just listen to music if it sounds good or if I need something to drown out the noise around me.

>Their analysis is biased. Young people predominantly use digital services to consume music, whereas older generations still use CDs and the radio.

If you mean people in their 70s yes.

Because even 50 and 60 year olds use YouTube A LOT, and I'm speaking in all around the world, including much less developed areas.

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