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.
GrendaGrendinator t1_j4b5cgz wrote
Reply to [OC] Heavy Metal bands in Spanish-speaking countries ยท Jan'2023 by UsandoFXOS
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.