Hometowns

Where the music comes from

548 of the 549 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
548
Countries
22
Place pages
76
Cities with a page
33
Albums
4,845
Average authorship
83%
Los Angeles: 32 artists London: 27 artists Atlanta: 22 artists New York City: 11 artists Houston: 10 artists Boston: 7 artists Chicago: 7 artists Detroit: 7 artists New Orleans: 7 artists Brooklyn: 6 artists Orlando: 6 artists Seattle: 6 artists St. Louis: 6 artists Las Vegas: 5 artists Philadelphia: 5 artists Seoul: 5 artists The Bronx: 5 artists Medellín: 4 artists Nashville: 4 artists Newark: 4 artists Queens: 4 artists San Francisco: 4 artists Stockholm: 4 artists Bristol: 3 artists Cleveland: 3 artists Compton: 3 artists Gary: 3 artists Jacksonville: 3 artists Long Beach: 3 artists Memphis: 3 artists Oakland: 3 artists Paris: 3 artists San Juan: 3 artists Sheffield: 3 artists Staten Island: 3 artists Sydney: 3 artists Toronto: 3 artists East Harlem: 2 artists Harlem: 2 artists Hollis: 2 artists Río Piedras: 2 artists Scarborough: 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 Greenwich Village: 1 artist Hammersmith: 1 artist Hell's Kitchen: 1 artist Highgate: 1 artist London Borough of Hackney: 1 artist London Borough of Haringey: 1 artist Manhattan: 1 artist Pinner: 1 artist Roxbury: 1 artist South Jamaica: 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

  • 410 of the 548 placed artists wrote at least 80% of what they recorded.
  • The split is 312 bands to 236 solo acts.
  • 291 of the 548 placed artists fall under Pop.
  • Start years on file run from 1933 to 2025.
  • 172 artists wrote every track on file.
  • The widest gap is 100 points: $uicideboy$ at 100% against Tina Turner at 0%.
  • The United States holds 71% of the placed roster: 389 of 548 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 389 81% California 76
United Kingdom 82 91% England 76
Canada 23 88% Ontario 15
Australia 9 90% New South Wales 4
Sweden 6 94% Stockholm 4
Colombia 5 98% Medellín 4
Ireland 5 91% Bray 1
South Korea no page yet 5 63% Seoul 5
Germany 4 98% Berlin 1
France no page yet 3 99% Paris 3
Norway 3 97% Bergen 2
Iceland no page yet 2 98% Garðabær 1
Mexico no page yet 2 65% San Juan Cerano 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
Denmark no page yet 1 98% Copenhagen 1
Haiti no page yet 1 98% Croix-des-Bouquets 1
India no page yet 1 0% Jiaganj 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 43 artists 86%
  2. 2 LondonEngland 39 artists 91%
  3. 3 Los AngelesCalifornia 32 artists 82%
  4. 4 AtlantaGeorgia 22 artists 81%
  5. 5 HoustonTexas 10 artists 77%
  6. 6 BostonMassachusetts 8 artists 67%
  7. 7 ChicagoIllinois 7 artists 90%
  8. 8 New OrleansLouisiana 7 artists 82%
  9. 9 DetroitMichigan 7 artists 48%
  10. 10 OrlandoFlorida 6 artists 78%
  11. 11 St. LouisMissouri 6 artists 94%
  12. 12 SeattleWashington 6 artists 93%

Biggest states and regions

  1. 1 EnglandUnited Kingdom 76 artists 91%
  2. 2 CaliforniaUnited States 76 artists 85%
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 51 artists 85%
  4. 4 GeorgiaUnited States 30 artists 79%
  5. 5 FloridaUnited States 22 artists 90%
  6. 6 TexasUnited States 20 artists 73%
  7. 7 OntarioCanada 15 artists 97%
  8. 8 TennesseeUnited States 15 artists 63%
  9. 9 MassachusettsUnited States 14 artists 79%
  10. 10 New JerseyUnited States 14 artists 81%
  11. 11 PennsylvaniaUnited States 13 artists 84%
  12. 12 LouisianaUnited States 11 artists 73%

Every hometown page

All 76 place pages, country by country. Indented rows sit inside the row above them.

United States 389

United Kingdom 82

Canada 23

Australia 9

Sweden 6

Colombia 5

Ireland 5

South Korea 5

Germany 4

France 3

Norway 3

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