Curious what band people in your state listen to that people other state's don't? Paul Lamere, Director of Developer Platform at The Echo Nest has created a map that uses data from Spotify and other data services to compare music preferences by region, state and across the country as a whole, according to Digital Music News. He compared which artists were uniquely popular in different areas.
"For this study, I sampled the listening preferences of about a quarter million listeners that have a zip code associated with their account," he wrote. "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."
"Using this approach we can pick a single signature artist for each state. I do this by finding the top most distinctive popular artist for a state that hasn't already been selected for a more populous state."
Check out your state's distinctive popular artist in the map above (via Music Machinery). Let us know if you agree with your state's selection in the comments section below!
