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metalstats t1_j4dgii7 wrote

Reply to comment by GrendaGrendinator in [OC] Heavy Metal bands in Spanish-speaking countries · Jan'2023 by UsandoFXOS

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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