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Where the Bands Are: A Breakdown by City

July 28, 2009 11:05 a.m. by Tony Sclafani

If you think you're gonna become the next Kurt Cobain while you're squirreled away in an obscure corner of suburbia, you may have to think again.

 

Hypebot is reporting on a pair of charts that show where you make music is, in fact, important, even in the age of the Internet. These charts come courtesy of Richard Florida's Music & The Entertainment Economy Project at the University of Toronto's Rotman School Of Management. They show the size of music scenes measured by the number of musicians and the number of fans (both numbers were devised by tallying the number of artists and fans on MySpace).

 

According to Hypebot, "They both provide the feedback that helps an artist create better music; and great music is where it all begins."

 

The top five most populous regions for bands, according to this data, are: Los Angeles, CA; Brooklyn, NY; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; and Houston, TX.

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2 Responses

July 30, 2009 at 11:30 a.m.

OK, but what about the next Robert Pollard (Dayton, OH)? Or Wayne Coyne (Oklahoma City)? Or Colin Meloy, from my hometown (Helena, MT)?
July 30, 2009 at 11:37 a.m.

I also wonder how they're defining "band," because Minneapolis probably has more MCs (and people calling themselves MCs) per square foot than any city in the Mid West, and they're on the list sort of low.

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