Mar 9, 2023 - News

Salt Lake City Shazamed a lot of pop music in 2022

Illustration of a pattern of cassette tapes.

Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios

Pop music was Shazamed more than any other genre in Salt Lake City last year, followed by hip-hop and rock.

The big picture: Axios' Erin Davis identified songs Shazamed in SLC more often than anywhere else in the U.S.

How it works: The top 100 most-Shazamed songs were identified by data provider Chartmetric for 96 cities around the U.S.

  • Axios compared the song rankings in each city to the average rank of those songs in the 95 other U.S. cities.
Data: Chartmetric; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals
Data: Chartmetric; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals

Between the lines: The study also found each city's top 10 most Shazamed artists and top 5 most Shazamed music genres.

SLC's top 10 artists were: Drake, The Weeknd, 21 Savage, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Baby, Ed Sheeran and Future.

  • Alternative and R&B/Soul rounded out the top five most Shazamed genres.
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