A neighborhood-by-neighborhood analysis of online listening
habits shows that each Big Apple neighborhood grooves out to tunes that are
strikingly different from even its closest neighbors, according to data from
online radio provider Pandora compiled for The NY Post.
The most popular genre stations on the Upper West Side were
“Family Folk Songs” and “New Age Solo Piano,” while the Upper
East Side tunes in to the “Laid Back Beach Music” and “Classical
Romance” stations.
Every stereotype about the stroller-packed baby haven of
Park Slope was confirmed when Pandora analysts revealed that “Toddler” was the
most popular genre station in ZIP code 11215.
Uptown, central Harlem loves “Afrobeat,” while East Harlem digs “Regional Mexican.”
Downtown, Lower East Side
hipsters make “Classic Indie,” “Today’s Indie” and “Indie Pop” the three most
popular genre stations.
Meanwhile, “Hard Rock Strength Training” and “Drum &
Bass” are the favorites in intense lower Manhattan .
And out in northwest Queens , listeners love
“Pop Fitness.”
Of course, not every neighborhood resident swings the same
way.
Analysts at Pandora, which boasts more than 200 million
users in the US ,
obtained these results by “over-indexing” listening habits to separate out the
“Top Hits” stations that all ZIP codes across the country have in common and
identify the genre stations that are uniquely popular for a given neighborhood.
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