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OUR INSPIRATION

Music has such a storied role in the culture of New York City, particularly live music.

Streaming music services started to flourish around 2015 and have since become the primary way people listen to music. We initially created this project to explore what streaming services were trending on a national level compared to what artists were performing live in New York City.

We wanted to get a sense of common artists listened to in New York, popular venues, streaming numbers and genres.

WHERE WE STARTED

We explored the APIs of Spotify, Discogs, Amazon, and Apple, and ran into roadblocks with all of them.

The Spotify API involved several steps of verification, eventually leading to results that were too general for our goals.

We started by getting the most general dataset from the Spotify API: Top Streamed artist by country and were able to parse the most current data set of top streamed artists in the US

We ended up pulling more data on events in New York City from both the Songkick and Eventful APIs

We also pulled data on streaming from the LastFM API

Spotify’s Top Streaming Artists in the US for 2017

Migos - Drake - The Weeknd - Ed Sheeran - ZAYN - KYLE - The Chainsmokers - Kendrick Lamar - Future - DJ Khaled - Lil Uzi Vert - French Montana - Taylor Swift - Logic - Post Malone - Cardi B - 21 Savage - Lil Pump - Camila Cabello

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