Recently Paul Lamere of the Echo Nest , a "music intelligence platform" company that claims to "automatically know everything about music," developed a map that displays each state's uniquely favorite artist. Lamere used Spotify to find his data, compiling information from the popular music-streaming service and comparing musicians' overall popularity in America with those same musicians' popularity in each individual state. In this way, he was able to suss out what artists are disproportionately represented in the states and thereby produce unique "favorites artists" for each.