The City Where People Hate Country Music

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Sep 14, 10:30AM EDT

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Country music is among the top music genres in the United States based on sales. Billboard keeps a list of the top country songs of all time. So does Rolling Stone. Country music stars like Garth Brooks are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, based on net worth.

Country music’s greatest appeal early on was in places in the South, usually led by Nashville. Areas in Texas and Georgia also had large country music followings.

Recently, LawnStarter released its list of 2022’s Best Cities for Country Music Fans. The researchers commented: “We compared over 180 of the biggest cities based on eight key factors, such as the number of country music festivals, access to performance venues, and the affordability of concert tickets.”

The entire methodology was complex. It included country music museums and Google searches. Among the sources were Concerts50, Country Music on Tour, Google Ads, Indie on the Move, myTuner Radio, Taste of Country and Wikipedia.
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Cities were rated across these criteria with a top score of 100. Not surprisingly, Nashville ranked first with a score of 77.14. No other city was close in terms of score. New York ranked second with a score of 44.20. The third city also had a score well below the first two. Salt Lake City ranked third with a score of 32.51, nearly tied with Atlanta at 31.95.
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The city at the bottom was Brownsville, Texas, with a score of 0.74. Most of the cities in the bottom 10 were in Texas or California.
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Brownsville, Texas (0.74)
Killeen, Texas (1.81)
Newark, N.J. (2.07)
Paterson, N.J. (2.22)
Laredo, Texas (2.56)
Palmdale, Calif. (2.79)
Hollywood, Fla. (3.00)
Lancaster, Calif. (3.06)
Mesquite, Texas (3.13)
Garden Grove, Calif. (3.23)
Yonkers, N.Y. (3.38)
Springfield, Mass. (3.51)
Glendale, Calif. (3.63)
Kansas City, Kans. (3.80)
Chula Vista, Calif. (3.81)
San Bernardino, Calif. (3.96)
Peoria, Ariz. (3.99)
Stockton, Calif. (4.07)
Carrollton, Texas (4.09)
Hayward, Calif. (4.12)

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.