[OC] Metal vs. Non-Metal Artists per Million

Posted by metalstats

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  2. If I’m reading this right, you’re saying they’re something ~10%* throughout the entire musical world, right?

    Neat graph – I would not have expected the ratio to be so similar!

  3. I love this chart! You can really see the impact of small populations on demographic statistics like this.

  4. The only trend this appears to be showing is that countries with more non-metal artists per capita also tend to have more metal artists per capita, which is fairly obvious. Also, the two axes are at different scales, which makes it a bit more difficult to compare.

    I feel like metal artists per non-metal artists would be a more interesting graph, so you can directly see what countries have a high proportion of metal artists. Then on the other axis, you could either have total artists, or artists per capita.

  5. A lot of people will misinterpret this chart, thinking that it’s a straight line. (but the axes are logarithmic)

  6. So its a power law. Would be nice to have the best fit.

  7. So, there is exactly one metal artist in Ethiopia

    I wonder how many countries have zero, there must be several of those

    Does nauru have any?

  8. I had to look at the comments to realise this is probably about music and not metal sculptures…but should probably make it clearer in the text anyway

  11. What is the qualification for being an artist? I’m not familiar with the site. Is it anyone who has ever released recorded music in any way, including just self-produced stuff on Bandcamp, YouTube, etc? Also is this just active artists, or any band that has existed? For example, its very common in metal for band members to change bands all of the time. I think that would increase the metal counts overall.

  13. Took me some time to realize that this is not about metal sculpture, reliefs, etc. but music.

  14. What I’m seeing is an absolute correlation between per capita gdp and concentration of metal bands 🤘🏼

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