Spotify draw up a world map of musical tastes – Emerge the Future

Just like for any other cultural or artistic expression, also music is the product of certain components and endemic geographical that produce the genesis of a particular style and explaining for example, because in Jamaica Reggae go for more, because the poor neighborhoods of American cities have given birth to the Rap and because the cold Scandinavia has witnessed the creation of the black metal.

Although produced in a manner purely geographical, music is however fruita at all latitudes due to diffusion systems, more and more global and advanced , in ways that lead users of the metropolises in the world to develop and tastes localized trends , but not directly related to the location from which effectively comes the music heard.

in charge of Spotify , the main music platform streaming (whatever one may say at home Apple), I have in fact taken the trouble to split in metropolitan areas of the globe and listen to thoroughly investigate what site users based on their membership of a particular area of ​​the world.

From short Around the Planet conducted via Spotify found that the kind of music most listened to in the world is the Hip Hop , new global trend that has ousted from playlists worldwide local artists and music “traditional”, going to be a glue only one able to overcome the geographic barriers that had witnessed the birth of the genre in the early 80s.

In view tied to the individual artists , the division in the city carried out by Spotify has been somewhat surprising, with the The Chiasmokers topped the trends of New York , Jamie xx that is king in London and Naples the triumph of the idol Local Clementino, much less influential in other cities homegrown.

Logically, map created by Spotify has a value only partial, from As the range of users of streaming music is rather “young” and divorced from the search for physical media of a different nature, but still managed to give a portrait reliable as proceeds fruition music in a world that increasingly aims to abolish the barriers also artistic remaining and become a kind of global village where all sounds, some more, some less, the same music.