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Artist Map // Top Albums of 2009

Taking a page from NPR, I decided to map the locations of the musicians included in my Top Albums of 2009 list. Here are the results:



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If you zoom in where the clumps of pins are, you’ll notice some interesting features:

  • Other than The Flaming Lips, there is no other act in the central part of the United States.
  • If you’re a musician that lives in New York state, you live in Brooklyn.
  • Everyone from New Jersey doesn’t have a hometown.
  • My two-year stint in Scandinavia might have influenced my selection.
  • Only one act from outside North America and Europe, and that was a compilation album.

Some interesting results indeed that makes me want to question my Western-centric music preferences…

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  1. Slipped Through the Cracks // Swedes Do It Better « Part-Time Music says:
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    [...] attested by the map detailing where the musicians of my favorite albums of 2009 are from, I love Swedish artists more than another other country not named The United States. There must be [...]

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