Hometowns

Where the music comes from

364 of the 365 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
364
Countries
16
Place pages
58
Cities with a page
23
Albums
3,199
Average authorship
84%
Los Angeles: 22 artists London: 14 artists Atlanta: 12 artists New York City: 11 artists Brooklyn: 6 artists Detroit: 6 artists Houston: 6 artists Las Vegas: 5 artists Seattle: 5 artists Seoul: 5 artists Boston: 4 artists Chicago: 4 artists Orlando: 4 artists Philadelphia: 4 artists St. Louis: 4 artists The Bronx: 4 artists Gary: 3 artists Memphis: 3 artists Nashville: 3 artists Paris: 3 artists San Francisco: 3 artists San Juan: 3 artists Sheffield: 3 artists Stockholm: 3 artists Harlem: 2 artists Queens: 2 artists Staten Island: 2 artists Toronto: 2 artists Astoria: 1 artist Bedford-Stuyvesant: 1 artist Brixton: 1 artist Chiswick: 1 artist Croydon: 1 artist East Finchley: 1 artist East Harlem: 1 artist Hammersmith: 1 artist Hell's Kitchen: 1 artist Hollis: 1 artist London Borough of Haringey: 1 artist Manhattan: 1 artist Pinner: 1 artist Río Piedras: 1 artist Scarborough: 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

  • 286 of the 364 placed artists wrote at least 80% of what they recorded.
  • The split is 157 bands to 207 solo acts.
  • 214 of the 364 placed artists fall under Pop.
  • Start years on file run from 1933 to 2025.
  • 132 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 72% of the placed roster: 262 of 364 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 262 82% California 51
United Kingdom 53 92% England 50
Canada 16 86% Ontario 10
Australia 5 88% New South Wales 2
South Korea no page yet 5 63% Seoul 5
Colombia 3 97% Medellín 2
France no page yet 3 99% Paris 3
Germany 3 98% Berlin 1
Ireland 3 99% Bray 1
Sweden no page yet 3 99% Stockholm 3
Netherlands no page yet 2 99% Amstelveen 1
Norway no page yet 2 96% Bergen 2
Barbados no page yet 1 44% Bridgetown 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 34 artists 86%
  2. 2 LondonEngland 23 artists 92%
  3. 3 Los AngelesCalifornia 22 artists 86%
  4. 4 AtlantaGeorgia 12 artists 89%
  5. 5 DetroitMichigan 6 artists 44%
  6. 6 HoustonTexas 6 artists 86%
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 5 artists 63%
  8. 8 Las VegasNevada 5 artists 99%
  9. 9 SeattleWashington 5 artists 95%
  10. 10 OrlandoFlorida 4 artists 67%
  11. 11 ChicagoIllinois 4 artists 89%
  12. 12 BostonMassachusetts 4 artists 84%

Biggest states and regions

  1. 1 CaliforniaUnited States 51 artists 88%
  2. 2 EnglandUnited Kingdom 50 artists 91%
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 38 artists 86%
  4. 4 FloridaUnited States 17 artists 89%
  5. 5 GeorgiaUnited States 17 artists 85%
  6. 6 TexasUnited States 14 artists 74%
  7. 7 TennesseeUnited States 13 artists 62%
  8. 8 OntarioCanada 10 artists 96%
  9. 9 New JerseyUnited States 9 artists 75%
  10. 10 PennsylvaniaUnited States 9 artists 80%
  11. 11 MichiganUnited States 8 artists 53%
  12. 12 MissouriUnited States 7 artists 98%

Every hometown page

All 58 place pages, country by country. Indented rows sit inside the row above them.

United States 262

United Kingdom 53

Canada 16

Australia 5

South Korea 5

Colombia 3

France 3

Germany 3

Ireland 3

Sweden 3

The same roster, other ways in.

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