The 5 Best Spotify Maps

Spotify has created a map of the most 'distinctive' songs beingness listened to inwards thousands of cities around the world. Spotify's Music Map allows yous to click on cities across the footing as well as nous to songs which are 'distinctive' to those cities.

Or at to the lowest degree yous should hold out able to nous to the songs - I couldn't. Each metropolis marking includes exclusively a link to nous to the city's distinctive songs on Spotify. Every fourth dimension I clicked on a link I exclusively got a spinning loading symbol.  So non exclusively could I non nous to the songs I couldn't fifty-fifty consider the listing of what those songs were.

Spotify say that the 'distinctive' songs are "music that people inwards each metropolis nous to quite a bit, which people inwards other cities also exercise non nous to really much". I've no thought why Spotify would conduct this nebulous approach. I'm certain at that topographic point would hold out far to a greater extent than involvement inwards the actual most pop songs inwards each city.

To hold out fair to Spotify the loading occupation I encountered mightiness hold out caused yesteryear my browser or merely a temporary occupation alongside Spotify's servers. However the whole map is a petty unsatisfying. It isn't just what I'd telephone telephone a beautiful map. H5N1 good designed map of the most pop songs inwards cities around the footing could hold out a dandy marketing tool for Spotify. This map, however, merely feels similar an chance missed.

Perhaps Spotify should marketplace some of the tertiary political party maps created alongside the Spotify API instead. The next Spotify maps, made yesteryear independent developers, are far amend than Spotify's ain map.


My favorite Spotify map is Serendipity. Serendipity uses information from Spotify to exhibit yous the locations of 2 Spotify users who are listening to the same rail at the same time. The map shows the locations of 2 users who accept started listening to the same vocal on Spotify inside a 10th of a minute of each other, inwards dissimilar towns, cities, states, nations or timezones.

The matter I most similar virtually this application is the purpose of a stereographic projection. The Web Mercator projection seems to dominion the roost inwards online mapping these days, thus it is dainty to consider a dissimilar map projection instruct a rare outing.

When the map progresses from 1 paired serendipitous vocal to the side yesteryear side it animates to a novel map view, which is detail interesting to sentry alongside this stereographic projection. You also instruct a quick boom of each novel vocal featured every bit the map animates around the world.


Roadtrip Mixtape is some other dandy Spotify map. Roadtrip Mixtape is a dandy agency to exercise a playlist for a road-trip containing exclusively music yesteryear artists that originate from locations on your route. Drive through Boston as well as yous mightiness hear Aerosmith or Donna Summer. Drive through New Orleans as well as yous could hear Lil Wayne or doctor John.

To purpose the application yous merely need  to add together the starting betoken of your journeying as well as your destination. Your journeying is as well as then displayed on a Google Map. Each leg of the journeying is represented on the map yesteryear a greenish marker.

If yous click on a marking yous tin thought a listing of local artists from that phase of the journey. If yous select 'Play this leg' yous tin nous to the music for that leg of the journeying straight from the map.


Music Where You Are is a location based music regain map. The map uses the Spotify API to abide by 'music where yous are, where yous are going, as well as where yous desire to be'.

Share your location alongside the map as well as yous tin regain songs virtually your location from the Spotify playlist. Alternatively yous tin search for artists from your searched location. All the Spotify songs or artists from your search are displayed inwards the map side-panel. Click on a vocal or creative somebody as well as yous tin nous to the music or add together the songs / artists to your Spotify playlists.

If yous click on the petty calendar icon yous tin also thought upcoming gigs around your location.


Spotimap is some other interactive map which tin aid yous abide by location themed songs. The map plots 7,681 songs inwards 212 cities around the world, every bit listed inwards the Wikipedia article List of songs virtually cities.

Click on whatever city's musical authorities annotation shaped marking on the map as well as yous tin thought a listing of songs virtually the selected city. What's more, if yous select whatever of the songs from the displayed list, yous tin nous to the vocal on Spotify.