New York City, New York, United States
Bands and musicians from New York City
41 artists are on SongSuey from New York City, with 334 albums and 4,572 tracks between them, every track credited by hand. On average they wrote 88% of their own tracks, 5 points above the site average of 83%.
- Artists
- 41
- Bands
- 15
- Solo acts
- 26
- Albums
- 334
- Tracks
- 4,572
- Average authorship
- 88% site 83%
Where New York City sits on the world outline. The full map has every artist on the site.
What the credits say about New York City
- A writers' town: 33 of the 41 artists from New York City wrote at least 80% of what they recorded.
- The widest gap here is 96 points: ASAP Rocky at 100% against Barbra Streisand at 4%.
- Acts from New York City with a start year on file got going between 1960 and 2021.
- Rick Rubin turns up in the credits of 10 of the 41 artists from New York City, 87 tracks in all.
- 13 of the 41 artists from New York City wrote every track on file: ASAP Rocky, Cardi B, Ice Spice, Leon Thomas, Nas, Nicki Minaj, Sombr, The Chainsmokers and 5 more.
All 41 artists from New York City, best score first
The score is the share of an act's tracks with a member credited as lyricist or composer. The grid is split by neighbourhood; a heading links through when that place has a page of its own.
East Harlem
Harlem
Astoria
Bedford-Stuyvesant
East Flatbush
Forest Hills
Hell's Kitchen
Hollis
Manhattan
South Jamaica
Parts of New York City
| Place | Artists | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn | 6 | 78% |
| The Bronx | 5 | 83% |
| Queens | 4 | 83% |
| Staten Island | 3 | 89% |
| East Harlem on this page | 2 | 99% |
| Harlem on this page | 2 | 94% |
| Astoria on this page | 1 | 60% |
| Bedford-Stuyvesant on this page | 1 | 90% |
| East Flatbush on this page | 1 | 99% |
| Forest Hills on this page | 1 | 85% |
| Hell's Kitchen on this page | 1 | 97% |
| Hollis on this page | 1 | 86% |
| Manhattan on this page | 1 | 93% |
| South Jamaica on this page | 1 | 99% |
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