US States Ranked By Musical Importance

[Gass3268]

I've been working on this list for a while, as it is ranking the states (plus DC) based on their musical impotance. Thought everyone here would find it interesting considering its a cross between music and geography.

1.   New York
2.   California
3.   Tennessee
4.   Texas
5.   Michigan
6.   Washington
7.   Louisiana
8.   New Jersey
9.   Illinois
10.   Georgia
11.   Pennsylvania
12.   Ohio
13.   Mississippi
14.   Florida
15.   Massachusetts
16.   Minnesota
17.   Missouri
18.   Indiana
19.   Washington DC
20.   North Carolina
21.   Virginia
22.   Oklahoma
23.   Kentucky
24.   Alabama
25.   Arizona
26.   Wisconsin
27.   Maryland
28.   Arkansas
29.   Oregon
30.   Connecticut
31.   New Mexico
32.   Colorado
33.   South Carolina
34.   Nebraska
35.   Kansas
36.   North Dakota
37.   West Virginia
38.   Vermont
39.   Delaware
40.   Utah
41.   Nevada
42.   Rhode Island
43.   Iowa
44.   Idaho
45.   Hawaii
46.   Alaska
47.   Maine
48.   New Hampshire
49.   Montana
50.   South Dakota
51.   Wyoming

[Gass3268]

Uhh... NH definitely isn't 48th.

We had Stephen Tyler, Ronnie James Dio, and Sully Erna. We may not have much pop to our name, but goddamn we can rock out.

But Aerosmith and Godsmack started in Massachusetts and Dio lived most of his life in New York before starting in music. That's what this list looks at

racist list is racist

Wait, what?

[Gass3268]

care to explain the methodology?

First I complied a massive list of artists and influential non-performers (producers, song-writers, executives, etc.). I looked at where the musican/non-performer started there musical career. This process took me a couple weeks. Then I ranked the states based on the following criteria:

- Centers of music (length of time as a center, importance, number) (New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, etc)
- Genres associated with the state (Bluegrass-Kentucky, Jazz-Lousiana and New York, Blues-Mississippi and Illinois, etc)
- Legends (Imporant acts are weighed more)
- Then number of acts that I could find

Mississippi not in the top ten?

Mississippi was difficult to rank because it was the home of the Delta Blues, but many of the acts from area where born and raised in Mississippi but went north, mainly to Chicago and Chess Records, to start their music careers. I'll relook at the list, I could see moving MS up to 11.

Not putting Mississippi at #1 is crazy. Without the Delta blues and Elvis, America's popular music would be unrecognizable.

I gave Elvis to Tenessee as he moved there at age 13 well before he stared his musical career.