Crawley – Welcome to Music Town, UK

My home town of Crawley is apparently the undisputed heavyweight champion of British music.At least, that is what you might conclude from the UK Music Cities Explorer. When the interactive map's results are normalized by population, Crawley appears as the largest circle on the map, giving it the highest Spotify-listener footprint per resident of any UK urban area in the explorer.Not bad for a small town in the south of England.The UK Music Cities Explorer is an interactive exploration of the geographical origins and global popularity of British bands. Using the map, you can search for individual bands or places, explore where artists were formed, compare Spotify monthly listeners and followers, and switch between raw totals and results normalized by the population of each urban area.The population-normalized view is where things become particularly interesting. Simply counting Spotify listeners naturally gives the biggest cities a huge advantage. London has a lot more potential…