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GrendaGrendinator t1_j4b5cgz wrote

Assuming I'm reading this correctly; why not show metal bands/total bands? Metal bands per 1mil capita shows metal affluence among the general population but not how popular that music is compared to other genres. It partially reflects bands of any genre per capita in addition to metal popularity without isolating either. Total bands per country is also silly info since that chart reflects population.

A country of 100k with 100 metal bands is going to have 1k metal bands per mil which is really high, but if they also have 9900 other bands then that's only 1% metal bands and metal probably isn't that popular there.

A country like Mexico with 130 million people in it is also very obviously going to fucking stomp a small country like Costa Rica and their 5 million people into the ground in terms of total number of bands if they have even slightly comparable amounts of interest in metal per capita.

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metalstats t1_j4dgii7 wrote

I like the way you think. The problem is that metal band counts are easy to get from metal archives, but the same resource does not exist for any other genre. Or at least not easily. From what I've seen, what you say is indeed the case. Countries with high metal/capita will also have high music/capita in genre. Genre specific per Capita has a significant cofounder in GDP.

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UsandoFXOS OP t1_j4hj5tx wrote

Well, being talking about SPANISH-speaking countries, most of them prefer a lot salsa, cumbia, merengue, bachata and other "latin rhytms" than "metal music"... So i am not so sure that there is some kind of correlation between "number of metal bands" with other GDP or financial or even development or cultural variables.

I would say that this data simply show us in which countries there are preference to Heavy Metal, compared with other countries in the "spanish-language cultural sphere". Without any other conclusion or interest. Do you not agree with this statement?

Anyway, u/metalstats is right: is very easy to have quite exact stats about metal bands thanks to the incredible free project of https://www.metal-archives.com/ but it is quite difficult to get the same info regarding other musical genres. At least i don't know where to get it.

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UsandoFXOS OP t1_j4hjj8d wrote

But retriving the suggestion of u/GrendaGrendinator ... it would be great to get information about any other musical genre(s) and make a graph comparing it with metal 😁 yeah!

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