Re: Liverpool's 56 number ones

On 31 Jan, 15:26, "RichL" <rpleav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JohnB <johnbo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
These always struck me as being rather large cities, measuring their
populations in millions rather than thousands. Am I wrong? And the
list does appear to contain all the large cities that non-Americans
would already know, even if they know nothing about music. Are there
no comparatively small places that are known for producing a high
number of successful acts?

(For reference, in the UK, London is the largest city, pop c 8m, then
there are a couple of cities vying for 2nd spot (I don't have the
stats to hand): Birmingham, Glasgow, pop c 1m; then there's
Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Edinburgh, all c 400,000 -
500,000. Thus London is about 16-20 times the size of these cities,
yet the music success of its citizens nowhere near matches that
difference.)

Here are the populations for the cities mentioned:
New York: 8,250,567
Los Angeles: 3,849,368
Chicago: 2,873,326
Detroit: 918,849
San Francisco: 744,041
Austin: 709,893
Boston: 590,763
Seattle: 582,454
Portland: 537,081
Atlanta: 486,411
New Orleans: 223,388
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

So they span quite a population range, and there are many larger cities
not on the list.


Many of those cities are smaller than I thought. esp New Orleans which
everyone here would think of as a centre for blues/trad jazz. But do
the artists come *from* there or gravitate *to* there?
Also, who are the famous acts that come from Austin, Portland and
Atlanta? Do people generally identify those acts with their home
town? We had Merseybeat, Madchester, even Brumbeat as local
identities. We think of the "West Coast Sound" starting with the Beach
Boys and moving on through the Eagles and on, taking in a number of
other acts on the way, but whether that means SF or LA or both (or
even Seattle too?), I wouldn't know - and that covers quite an area if
it does.


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