--- title: Spotify Map of Popular July 4 Songs by State description: Spotify and Echo Nest release list of distinctive July 4 songs by state canonical: https://time.com/2945794/this-map-shows-the-most-popular-fourth-of-july-songs-in-each-state/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman Staff Writer Jul 1, 2014 7:09 PM UTC In a move that the Founding Fathers could have only dreamed of, [Spotify](http://news.spotify.com/us/2014/07/01/4th-of-july/) is helping celebrate Independence this year with a map of the United States that shows which songs got more play on July 4 last year than any other day in 2013. How did this map come into fruition? Paul Lamere, director of developer platform at Spotify subsidiary Echo Nest, began by combing through playlists that users titled “Fourth of July” and then compared those songs to what they listened to during the week prior. A post on Spotify’s [blog](http://news.spotify.com/us/2014/07/01/4th-of-july/) adds: “He also looked at each state’s favorite song, finding 46 of the 50 to prefer Miley Cyrus’ ‘Party in the U.S.A.’.” Because patriotism. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Lamere found that people in the nation’s capital listened to the most red-white-and-blue tunes on July 4\. Washington D.C. was followed by Nebraska, Delaware, Louisiana and Utah. The states ranked lowest were Alaska, New Hampshire, Maine, South Dakota and Hawaii. **LISTEN:** [From Springsteen to Cyrus: NewsFeed’s All-American Independence Day Playlist](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/04/from-springsteen-to-cyrus-your-all-american-independence-day-playlist/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2945794/this-map-shows-the-most-popular-fourth-of-july-songs-in-each-state/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2945794/this-map-shows-the-most-popular-fourth-of-july-songs-in-each-state/"},"headline":"This Map Shows The Most Popular \"Fourth of July\" Songs in Each State","datePublished":"2014-07-01T19:09:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:17.803Z","description":"These tunes are played more on July 4 than they are the rest of the year, according to Spotify","url":"https://time.com/2945794/this-map-shows-the-most-popular-fourth-of-july-songs-in-each-state/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57c183bc04b8c625/69869a09cd684853750957bc/screen-shot-2014-07-01-at-11-47-33-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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