Part of what makes the internet so exciting for music lovers isn’t just the fact that you have new ways to access music, but also the scope of the music you’re able to access. Just about everything you could possibly imagine is at your finger tips.

Whether you want to hear Appalachian death metal or choral chants from a local Seattle choir, it’s all just a click away. Spotify seem to understand this and they’ve now decided to help users musically travel the globe with their latest feature.

“In our connected world, people everywhere tend to enjoy the same top hits, as we can tell by looking at the top song in each country,” the popular streaming service writes. “But when most travelers visit another place, they don’t seek out the same food they eat at home, even if they can find it.”

“We travel to experience what makes a place different, and special, by sampling local specialties. Let’s try the same approach with music, on a big map of the world. You can click any of nearly a thousand cities to hear a playlist of the music that is most distinctively enjoyed there.”

As readers can see below, Spotify have assembled a map of the world, with specific playlists compiled for specific areas, including several in Australia. Ever wondered what people listen to in Brunswick as compared to South Yarra? Now you can.

“What do we mean by ‘distinctive?’ This is music that people in each city listen to quite a bit, which people in other cities also do not listen to very much,” write Spotify. “So it is, exactly, the music that makes them different from people everywhere else.”

“Whenever you want, your headphones can take you to hundreds of cities on this map — an interactive audiographic guide to how the world listens to music. Because this music represents music that over-indexes in these cities, it’s a great way to pluck local favorites from around the world and add the ones you like to Your Music in Spotify.”

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“Today, this will tell you that New York, New York uniquely can’t get enough of The Chainsmokers, while Berlin thrills disproportionately to one particular song by Jakob Dylan. All of these thousand or so playlists update bi-monthly, so you can return to the map whenever you want to hear the latest distinctive music to each city.”

So what about Australia? Well, for starters, it’s interesting to note that different areas of Melbourne alone apparently have different musical preferences. Those in South Yarra enjoy the sounds of Chet Faker, Motez, and Hermitude, while Brunwick leans a little more indie, with Melbourne right in the middle.

As long as we’re on the topic, we gotta say it’s interesting the Spotify people decided to split Melbourne by suburb. But we guess Brunswick and South Yarra are world’s apart, huh?

Meanwhile, Brisbane are all about the Aussie hip-hop, including artists like Allday, Tkay Maidza, and 360. Sydney, on the other hand, just can’t stop spinning Peking Duk, Birds of Tokyo, and Drapht.

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