Chicago native Lil Durk among top artists Shazammed last year

Rapper Lil Durk was the third-most Shazammed artist in Chicago in 2022. The Chicago native fell right behind fellow hip-hop artists Drake and Lil Baby.

The big picture: Axios' Erin Davis and Max Millington identified songs Shazammed in Chicago more often than anywhere else in the U.S.

How it works: The top 100 most-Shazammed songs were identified by data provider Chartmetric for 96 cities nationwide.

• Axios compared the song rankings in each city against the average rank of those songs in the 95 other U.S. cities.

Between the lines: The study also calculated each city's most Shazammed artists and music genres.

Chicago's top 10 artists were: Drake, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, 21 Savage, Future, The Weeknd, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Kanye West, Gunna and Kendrick Lamar.

The top 5 genres Shazammed in Chicago were pop, hip-hop, rock, R&B and alternative.