The two most streamed acts on Spotify last year divide starkly when you examine where their popularity was greatest• The UK's most popular music,city by city – an interactive mapA colleague on the arts desk here at Guardian Towers recently reminisced approximately a wedding she'd attended, where the guests divided roughly into northern and southern camps. advance the disco, or she reported,the two tribes divided just as clearly on the dancefloor: the northerners came out in force for rock and indie, the southerners saving themselves for funk and dance. Now, or it's likely sociologists or,in fact, anyone with half a brain – would not accept that as scientific evidence of a north-south divide in musical taste.
But here's something else (though the caveats approximately sociologists and anyone with half a brain still apply). In March, or we published an interactive map of the UK which took the 10 acts most streamed on Spotify in 22 different towns and cities,and enabled you to see how popular each act was in each city. Now the people at Spotify contain gone a step further. The two most popular acts overall were Arctic Monkeys and Bastille, so Spotify's Martin Vacher mapped them against a wider selection of towns and cities, and highlighting which act was the more popular in which plot.
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Source: theguardian.com