CELEBRITY CRUISES MUSIC MAPPED SONG LIST
The high seas have revealed in an in-depth survey of where the most high C’s are to be found around the globe.
Celebrity Cruises commissioned detailed research into where in the world are to be found the most sung about cities, towns and locations it has been revealed.
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London was in second place with just over 100 songs.
They are followed by Los Angeles 87, Paris 52 and Miami in fifth place with 46 songs mentioning the city.
Paris was in fourth place on the Music Mapped listing.
Celebrity Cruises wanted to know if people whom travel were inspired to do so because of a song about a romantic or just an inspiring and interesting place to visit. Maybe they were thinking of one of the ports that their ships regularly sail from Southampton? Three songs from there by Craig David, John and Yoko and Tinie Tempah.
Southampton a port used by Celebrity Cruises has three songs on the Music Mapped list.
Although one song on the very detailed listing was written about a small town in North East England, Hartlepool and probably has never seen a Celebrity Cruise ship in its time? But if it has please send details to me? The song from there was from the 1960’s and by Benny Hill a slightly bawdy English comedian.
The Music Mapped web page where you can look up lots of travel and music facts.
Although another place on the list Burgh Island would be dwarfed if one of the latest cruise ships dropped in at its South Devon island resort location. What a song and dance that would cause for this famous Agatha Christie’s favourite location used in one of her crime story books. Ben Howard sang the song by the way.
Burgh Island had one song on the list this tiny island resort off the South Devon coast.
The research data was compiled by scanning lyrics of over 200,000 charting singles from the past 60 years. To create this unique music mapping tool, Celebrity Cruises used manual and automated analysis to scan the songs that charted in the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Official Singles chart since 1960 to find mentions of cities, towns, neighbourhoods and states.
MUSIC MAPPED RESEARCH
This extensive research resulted in a final data set of over 2,000 songs by 897 artists with 422 different places being mentioned around the world.
This is the full top twenty:
1. New York, USA – 161 songs | 11. Atlanta, USA – 23 songs |
2. London, UK – 102 songs | 12 Detroit, USA – 23 songs |
3. Los Angeles, USA – 87 songs | 13. Compton, USA – 21 songs |
4. Paris, France – 52 songs | 14. Tokyo, Japan – 20 songs |
5. Miami, USA – 46 songs | 15. Houston, USA – 16 songs |
6. New Orleans, USA – 43 songs | 16. Las Vegas, USA – 16 songs |
7. Rome, Italy – 30 songs | 17. Ibiza, Spain – 12 songs |
8. San Francisco, USA – 28 songs | 18. Mumbai, India – 11 songs |
9. Memphis, USA – 28 songs | 19. Liverpool, UK – 11 songs |
10. Chicago, USA – 24 songs | 20. Milan, Italy – 10 songs |
Milan in Italy made it to number 20 on the Music Mapped list.
Jo Rzymowska, Managing Director of Celebrity Cruises commented: “Music can inspire where we travel and bring back emotive memories of the places we’ve been – often providing a distinct soundtrack to our holidays and adventures. We love that this innovative data project creates a fun and engaging way to explore the world. By marrying music and travel over the past 60 years, we hope the project sparks conversation and inspiration for your next trip.”
Miami was always likely to be on the list and was in in fact in fifth place.
Dr. Jon Stewart, BA (Hons) Music Business Course Leader at British Institute of Modern Music (BIMM) Institute Brighton and popular music expert, commented: “Music is inevitably tied to location – who could imagine The Beach Boys without references to California? Without the geographical touch-points found in Britpop, it simply wouldn’t make sense.
And, how would the blues, country, and rock and roll genres be received if they were stripped of all connections to the geography and politics of the American deep south that inspired them?”
The survey also throws up a whole combination of other facts that you can check for yourself.
1. Which artist mentions the most places?
2. The ten most sung about places in Europe?
3. The most sung about places in the UK?
4. The 10 most sung about places in the US?
