Migration within the 50 states plays a role in dfining what is considerd as Classic Rock.
Walt Hickey at the FivethirtyEight website writes Billy Joel is bigger in New York than anywhere else in the country, but he’s also the most disproportionately played artist in Miami. Why? According to Hickey, "think about who might be listening to classic rock stations in Miami: retired New Yorkers!"
Hickey looked at each city to find the artist its classic rock station played most disproportionately. Essentially, this map shows the local and regional preferences in classic rock.
Cities where rock stations have longer legacies, like Detroit and Philadelphia, tend to prefer an older style of classic rock — think J. Geils Band and the Beatles — while cities without that history tend to favor the more contemporary set.
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