U.S. Map Shows The Most Popular EDM Songs Per State

Recently music streaming service Pandora released a map of the most popular EDM songs per state by tapping into their data and pulling that streaming stats.

I’ll admit up front how shocked I am at the variance across states. Typically music charts (of the same genre) tend to be flat across a nation, but this one’s all over the place. Now what’s MOST INTERESTING OF ALL here is upon releasing the map, how badly Pandora bungled it. They might have made the WORST map in the history of map making. Every color is the same, and those fools have clearly never heard of the Checker Shadow Illusion. Just look at this garbage:

Now that you’ve seen the awful map and you want to rip your eyes out, here it is again but with colors that your eyes can actually discern:

From EDM.com:

Pandora recently shared data of EDM’s popularity on the platform, along with its top-spinning electronic song in each state. The list only includes electronic music’s most recent releases within the past 90 days, and is mostly reflective of the month of October.

The discovery came in both expected and surprising ways. Pandora revealed the top played EDM song in nineteen different states was “Heroes” (We Could Be) by Alesso feat. Tove Lo, followed by “Are We Faded” by Dim Mak trio Keys N Krates. Some of these over-indexed spins were anticipated, while others were more infrequent, and it helped disclose a state’s particular taste in EDM. Deep house initiative Croquet Club’s song “Breath” was most popular in East Coast states like Florida and Georgia, along with West Coast states like California.

New York, a state highly recognized for its advanced love in electronic music, also favored the deep house sound, with the state’s most played track being “Favourite Addiction” by Hot Creations duo Digitaria featuring Clarian. Other states preferred the electro and progressive house sounds, with “When We Were Young” by Dillon Francis & Sultan & Ned Shepard being the most-spun track in Iowa, and David Guetta’s “Lover On The Sun” taking the same title in Colorado.

They posted the blue map, and therefore had to explain to any person looking at it just exactly what in the hell they were looking at.

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