OT: best-selling musical artists by state of birth
Kenny G? Get your shit together Washington.
Billy Gillman being number one for Rhode Island just means there have been very few musical acts from Rhode Island.
Can't believe that the Backstreet Boys have outsold Tom Petty - especially if you count Travelling Wilbury's, Mudcrutch and his solo stuff on top of the Heartbreakers. Dude put out like 20 albums in total, most of them gold records.
I wouldn't really equate Eagles w/ California with Henley being from Texas and Frey from MI.
Not sure about NH either w/ Joe Perry from MA and Steven Tyler from NY.
John Denver isn't from Colorado? /s
Who the f*ck are Spencer Bohren and Billy Gilman?
This is dumb. Best-selling doesn't equal great. Or even good. There are a ton of great artists unlisted because they're not as popular as...oh, say, Mariah Carey. So the Ramones, the Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Public Enemy, et al. get ignored by it. Ohio has produced two of my favorite great and influential bands of the 70s: The Ohio Players and Pere Ubu. Both are legandary. Let's not misinterpret a bullshit list to assert that the music in a given place is bad because some best-selling artist who happened to be born there sucks.
How do you really feel?
I'm not upset. I just calmly pointed out that this map is silly and useless.
is about as valid as that football imperialism map.
However it at least measures a somewhat objective kind of data as opposed to which bands are "good" or not.
I think we should name each state according to this. Kansas!
That best selling is only weakly correlated with any good.
That has to be a name picked out while the band/artist was on a leek eating midnight sun whiskey binge.
April 17th, 2018 at 11:35 PM ^
Pretty surprised that Kenny G has outsold Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and all the rest of the excellent bands from Washington. I guess he's been doing it for 45 years...
Billy Joel has outsold Mariah Carey and therefore should represent New York:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-certified_music_artists_in_the_United_States