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Genre is the most listened in the world

Results from a new map show that hip-hop is the world’s most listened to genre, with hip-hop tracks showing up on more playlists per city than any other genre.

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According to the results of a new 'musical map of the world' put together by music streaming service Spotify, Hip-hop is the most listened to genre in the world.

The live map analyses nearly 20 billion tracks and displays local listening trends for over 1,000 different cities.

Updated twice a month, users can click on a city of their choice to reveal a playlist featuring the tracks that are 'distinctive' to that area. Spotify explained 'distinctive' tracks as music that people in one city listen to very frequently, which people in other cities do not listen to very much.

Spotify is still unavailable in Nigeria, but a good example from this map are some cities in Britain. Among the most poular artists listened to in London are Jamie xx, rapper JME and Slaves, while popular artists in Edinburgh are currently King Creosote, The View and Twin Atlantic.

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Results from the map have also shown that hip-hop is the world’s most listened to genre, with hip-hop tracks showing up on more playlists per city than any other genre.Take a look at the map here.

Last month Spotify announced it now has 75 million active users, of whom 20 million are paying subscribers.The streaming service's number of paying subscribers has doubled since May 2014, when Spotify laid claim to 40 million active users and 10 million paying subscribers. Over the last year, Spotify said in a press release, it has gained a new subscriber on average every three seconds.

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