Hometowns

Where the music comes from

452 of the 453 artists on SongSuey have a hometown pinned to a Wikidata place, and every one of them is filed here by country, region and city. Each place carries the same score an artist page does: the share of tracks the acts from there wrote themselves. Pick a country below, or start from the biggest scenes.

Artists placed
452
Countries
18
Place pages
67
Cities with a page
29
Albums
4,146
Average authorship
83%
Los Angeles: 25 artists London: 22 artists Atlanta: 17 artists New York City: 11 artists Houston: 10 artists Brooklyn: 6 artists Chicago: 6 artists Detroit: 6 artists Boston: 5 artists Las Vegas: 5 artists New Orleans: 5 artists Philadelphia: 5 artists Seattle: 5 artists Seoul: 5 artists The Bronx: 5 artists Nashville: 4 artists Orlando: 4 artists San Francisco: 4 artists St. Louis: 4 artists Stockholm: 4 artists Cleveland: 3 artists Compton: 3 artists Gary: 3 artists Jacksonville: 3 artists Medellín: 3 artists Memphis: 3 artists Newark: 3 artists Paris: 3 artists Queens: 3 artists San Juan: 3 artists Sheffield: 3 artists Toronto: 3 artists East Harlem: 2 artists Harlem: 2 artists Río Piedras: 2 artists Scarborough: 2 artists Staten Island: 2 artists Astoria: 1 artist Bedford-Stuyvesant: 1 artist Brixton: 1 artist Chiswick: 1 artist Croydon: 1 artist East Finchley: 1 artist East Flatbush: 1 artist Forest Hills: 1 artist Hammersmith: 1 artist Hell's Kitchen: 1 artist Highgate: 1 artist Hollis: 1 artist London Borough of Haringey: 1 artist Manhattan: 1 artist Pinner: 1 artist South Jamaica: 1 artist Southgate: 1 artist Tottenham: 1 artist

One dot per city that has its own page; a bigger dot means more artists share it. The map behind the button has every placed artist, the smaller towns included.

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What the credits say across the whole roster

  • 346 of the 452 placed artists wrote at least 80% of what they recorded.
  • The split is 230 bands to 222 solo acts.
  • 258 of the 452 placed artists fall under Pop.
  • Start years on file run from 1933 to 2025.
  • 147 artists wrote every track on file.
  • The widest gap is 100 points: 3 Doors Down at 100% against Tina Turner at 0%.
  • The United States holds 71.2% of the placed roster: 322 of 452 artists.

By country

Every country with at least one placed artist, most artists first. A country gets a page of its own once it has enough artists spread over enough places; until then its artists sit on the map and in the city rows below.

CountryArtistsAverageBiggest scene
United States 322 80% California 60
United Kingdom 70 92% England 65
Canada 18 87% Ontario 12
Australia 6 90% New South Wales 2
South Korea no page yet 5 63% Seoul 5
Colombia 4 98% Medellín 3
Germany 4 98% Berlin 1
Ireland 4 100% Bray 1
Sweden no page yet 4 96% Stockholm 4
France no page yet 3 99% Paris 3
Norway 3 97% Bergen 2
Iceland no page yet 2 98% Garðabær 1
Netherlands no page yet 2 99% Amstelveen 1
Barbados no page yet 1 44% Bridgetown 1
Cuba no page yet 1 96% Cojímar 1
Jamaica no page yet 1 85% Nine Mile 1
New Zealand no page yet 1 100% Auckland 1
Spain no page yet 1 82% Madrid 1

Biggest cities

  1. 1 New York CityNew York 39 artists 87%
  2. 2 LondonEngland 32 artists 92%
  3. 3 Los AngelesCalifornia 25 artists 82%
  4. 4 AtlantaGeorgia 17 artists 81%
  5. 5 HoustonTexas 10 artists 77%
  6. 6 ChicagoIllinois 6 artists 89%
  7. 7 DetroitMichigan 6 artists 44%
  8. 8 TorontoOntario 5 artists 98%
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 5 artists 63%
  10. 10 New OrleansLouisiana 5 artists 77%
  11. 11 BostonMassachusetts 5 artists 75%
  12. 12 Las VegasNevada 5 artists 99%

Biggest states and regions

  1. 1 EnglandUnited Kingdom 65 artists 91%
  2. 2 CaliforniaUnited States 60 artists 86%
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 46 artists 86%
  4. 4 GeorgiaUnited States 23 artists 78%
  5. 5 FloridaUnited States 19 artists 89%
  6. 6 TexasUnited States 19 artists 73%
  7. 7 TennesseeUnited States 14 artists 61%
  8. 8 OntarioCanada 12 artists 97%
  9. 9 New JerseyUnited States 11 artists 79%
  10. 10 PennsylvaniaUnited States 11 artists 81%
  11. 11 LouisianaUnited States 9 artists 68%
  12. 12 MichiganUnited States 8 artists 53%

Every hometown page

All 67 place pages, country by country. Indented rows sit inside the row above them.

United States 322

United Kingdom 70

Canada 18

Australia 6

South Korea 5

Colombia 4

Germany 4

Ireland 4

Sweden 4

France 3

Norway 3

The same roster, other ways in.

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