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.
Kevin Gates is an amazing, underrated artist and absolutely worth your time.
Music Fandom Maps
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#42Is this from some public YouTube data/API? Would really like to do this for other countries.
VideoAmigo already does this for all countries (sourcing from YouTube) Top videos: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-videos Top Channels: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-channels Top Unsigned artists: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-unsigned You can sort each by country, genre, language.
the country, genre, language is the reported country of the artist or channel. Not of the streams.
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#43I'd rather see how the top touring bands are distributed.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ehh if you look back a lot of the music from any decade is crap. It's just easier to forget.
> Ehh if you look back a lot of the music from any decade is crap. Not necessarily true. Some decades stand out while others do not. Like the 60s for example vs the 90s. People in the 70s and 80s still cherished 60s icons, but few in the 00s and 10s care for 90s music (there's more interest in 80s music).
Hmm, interesting—from my perspective, i have similarly strong intuition for love of decades, but mapped differently. For instance i know virtually nobody into 80s music, but 90s r&b and hip-hop are reliable favorites.
My point being: give me a good band, and i can list three at the same time that people don't bring up anymore because they suck. I firmly believe this is nostalgic bias at work, although i dislike taylor swift and justin beiber as much as the next person. Or likely much more. I don't believe it means anything about the decade, just what labels decided people want to hear.
Or to put it another way, my beloved music from the past wasn't even "mainstream popular" then.
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#45Fascinating. But so many of the maps look identical to each other, they obviously "cluster" together.
I'd be much more interested in seeing a SVD-style analysis that showed a map for each dimension and listed the bands that most closely matched the dimension.
It would literally discover "geographical music genres".
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#46Wow. 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 ... :-)
I mean most of these are names you would have heard had you made any effort to follow music in the last decade. You don't have to love modern music but what is the value in commenting that you don't know it?
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#47I found it weird looking at my region and not a single map had any significant shading to it. I wonder if our tastes are just that esoteric or my neighbors prefer a genre of music that isn't represented in this article.
Also some of their analysis doesn't quite line up with the graphic... "of course, Eminem is popular in his hometown, Detroit" while Detroit is as darkly shaded on the map as, say, northern New Mexico.
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#48Is this from some public YouTube data/API? Would really like to do this for other countries.
VideoAmigo already does this for all countries (sourcing from YouTube) Top videos: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-videos Top Channels: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-channels Top Unsigned artists: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-unsigned You can sort each by country, genre, language.
I would like to do the same with my country (malaysia). Even video amigo doesn't have the stats for mine. How would one do this? That's the interesting bit.
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#49As 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.
Here's an interesting filter to apply to this map: all of the innovative music from the last 100 years originated in the triangle between Memphis, New Orleans and Nashville—blues, jazz, R&B, rock and roll, and country. All of those genres were born in that small geographical area. It's the Silicon valley of modern music. You could also argue that hip hop is a permutation of blues/r&b.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
VideoAmigo already does this for all countries (sourcing from YouTube) Top videos: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-videos Top Channels: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-channels Top Unsigned artists: https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-unsigned You can sort each by country, genre, language.
I would like to do the same with my country (malaysia). Even video amigo doesn't have the stats for mine. How would one do this? That's the interesting bit.
yours as in ... you as an artist?
these are the top channels in Malaysia:
https://www.videoamigo.com/music-charts/top-music-channels?c...