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# The Most Popular Music Websites In 2010
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/the-most-popular-music-websites-in-2010/
- Published: 2011-02-04T13:40:51.000Z
- Updated: 2011-02-04T13:40:51.000Z
- Description: Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv, has created a fascinating music website heat map; it depicts estimated web-based music consumption in the U.S. in 2010. The visualization is based. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/02/the-most-popular-music-websites-
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of [VirtualMusic.tv](http://virtualmusic.tv/?ref=hypebot.com), has created a fascinating music website heat map; it depicts estimated web-based music consumption in the U.S. in 2010.

The visualization is based on traffic data from Compete.

**Green** 

indicates positive growth in 2010.

**Red**

indicates negative growth in 2010\. Notable is the fact that cloud-based music services, aside from we7 and Rdio, had a bad year traffic-wise. we7 and Rdio may have grown, but they appear to hold a much smaller percentage of consumer mind-share than their competitors.**Take a look:**  

[![](http://img.virtualmusic.tv/maps/2010/png8/2010musicheatmap_960x1614.png)](http://virtualmusic.tv/2011/02/2010-music-website-heat-map/?ref=hypebot.com)

**Let’s zoom out and view the bigger picture**:

[![](http://img.virtualmusic.tv/maps/2010/png8/2010musicmapwide_960x255.png)](http://virtualmusic.tv/2011/02/2010-music-website-heat-map/?ref=hypebot.com)

**For a more detailed graphic and info go [here](http://virtualmusic.tv/2011/02/2010-music-website-heat-map/?ref=hypebot.com).**