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Hear the World with Spotify

by KatieS

Dec 24, 2016
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Spotify, a digital music service, revamped their map of the world giving travelers a way to listen to the beats that make up a city. The interactive map allows listeners to scour the globe to choose popular musical possibilities from various cities, according to Spotify data.

The company created playlists for nearly 1,000 cities, highlighting songs in each city that have high play-counts, analyzing a total of 20 billion listener-track relationships to help identify the songs that give the city its distinctive character.

Local acts receive a big boost from the towns they are played in, repping hometown heroes.

Spotfiy’s map is an excellent way to keep track of music scenes across the world, staying up to date as the scenes evolve. The team updates the map and playlists twice a month to keep highlighting the most popular music.

In London, Flume’s “Heater” takes fourth, followed by songs from Abra Cadabra and MoStack, while those in Los Angeles are enjoying Childish Gambino who takes up the first three spots in the city’s top played songs.

The remarkable tool allows travelers to take a dive into the pop culture scene of your host city’s culture with previews of various songs. The map reveals items like distinctive music which refers to the songs played disproportionately in relation to other countries. Audiophiles are able to discover emerging artists and hits going viral.

Spotify has allowed everyone to immerse themselves in the music of other city’s cultures.

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