MUSIC MAPPED

Music can provide a distinct soundtrack to our holidays, even inspiring where we travel.

To reveal the most sung about places in the world, at Celebrity Cruises we’ve analysed the lyrics of top-charting singles since the 1960s.

Explore by artist, genre or decade to discover the most popular, and sometimes surprising places, that feature in popular music.

Genre (All)
Decade (All)
Top 5 Most Mentioned
1. New York
161 Songs
2. London
102 Songs
3. Los Angeles
87 Songs
4. California
67 Songs
5. Hollywood
66 Songs

To create this music map, we used manual and automated analysis to scan the lyrics of over 200,000 songs that charted in the top 40 within the UK and US charts since the 1960s to find mentions of cities, towns, neighbourhoods and states.

From Amsterdam to Alaska and the Caribbean to Copenhagen, the results give a fascinating view of the places which may have inspired our favourite songs and artists.

Data by Datanauts