Map of Musicians

I get asked all the time about my music preferences.
  • "What's your favorite band?"
  • "Who's your favorite artist?"
  • "What's your favorite genre?"
And I get embarassed every time someone asks!  Answering that would require catching them up on a rabbit hole YEARS in the making.  Not something EITHER of us would have time for in the setting of an icebreaker question like this.
I made this page instead to refer people to when they ask.  Click on an artist to listen!
For the especially curious, here are some more technical details about what this visualization is showing:
  • The size of each artist tells how important they are to me.  How is that calculated?
  • Almost every artist here has a featured track.  How am I picking those?
    • For most tracks, popularity is determined as a combination of plays, likes, and comments squared divided by age.
    • If the track is in my Legendary Favorites playlist, it is "timeless", and will divide by its ranking there instead of age.
    • This means if there's not a significant difference in stats, Legendary Favorites are preferred.  But not always.
  • Artists with a LOT of followers have more negative space around them.
  • Graph edges (click a node to view them) also show if two artists are following each other or not.
    • Bidirectional starts thick, goes thin, then ends thick again.
    • Single-direction follows start thick and taper into nothingness.
PS: If you find something weird in this graph, it's probably a meme or shitpost account.  I'm following a few of those here.