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What Cities Produced “The Best Music” In 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

Does where music is made matter? A study by Patrick Adler, a doctoral student in urban planning at UCLA, appears to prove that it does. Adler used allmusic.com’s database and. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/12/what-cities-produced-the-best-music-in-2011-infographic.html]

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Does where music is made matter? A study by Patrick Adler, a doctoral student in urban planning at UCLA, appears to prove that it does. Adler used allmusic.com’s database and press coverage to "assign a locational base of operations" for every act on Pitchfork critic's top 100 of 2011, then counted the number of hits or hit producing acts per city. If an  artist had 2 hits, they were counted twice. If there was a  collaboration involving artists from more than one city, it  divided between those cities. The results:

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