--- title: Favorite Bands by State: Map From The Echo Sound description: Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has a ton of data on users' listening preferences from across the country. By digging into that information, they found which artists and bands are most appreciated in each state canonical: https://time.com/9709/here-is-a-map-of-every-states-favorite-band/ author: Jessica Roy article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-25T21:51:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:19.481Z og:title: Favorite Bands by State: Map From The Echo Sound og:description: Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has a ton of data on users' listening preferences from across the country. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Feb 25, 2014 9:51 PM UTC  by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Feb 25, 2014 9:51 PM UTC [The Echo Nest](http://blog.echonest.com/post/77823521396/music-fans-favorite-artists-by-state) provides a music intelligence platform to hugely popular services like Rdio, Spotify and MTV, so they have a ton of data on what people across America like to listen to. By digging into this well of information they were able to discern the favorite bands of each state and created a map that displays that data. For more info [check out the blog of Paul Lamer](http://musicmachinery.com/2014/02/25/exploring-regional-listening-preferences/)e, director of developer platform at The Echo Nest, who broke down the data further. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9709/here-is-a-map-of-every-states-favorite-band/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9709/here-is-a-map-of-every-states-favorite-band/"},"headline":"Here Is a Map of Every State's Favorite Band","datePublished":"2014-02-25T21:51:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:19.481Z","description":"Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has a ton of data on users' listening preferences from across the country. 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