- Source
- Google search interest, US by state, web search, default 5-year window (about Oct 2021–Oct 2026).
- Queries
- one query per genre keyword; 25 genres were pulled.
- Over-index
- a state's index for a genre divided by that genre's mean across the 50 states plus DC.
We mapped five years of US Google searches for 22 music genres to find the genre each state searches most compared with the rest of the country. Regional Mexican corridos dominate the Southwest and West: California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska and Idaho. Afrobeats leads in the East Coast corridor: DC, Maryland, New York, Georgia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Delaware. DC searches it 5.1x the state average. Gospel owns the Deep South: Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, the Carolinas and Kentucky. Country is the top over-index in only four states: Tennessee, West Virginia, Iowa and North Dakota. Some surprises: Hawaii is America's K-pop capital (2.2x), Nevada over-searches punk rock (3.7x, the home of Punk Rock Bowling), Colorado leads EDM, and Oregon leads lo-fi.
Genre "wins" (states where it is the #1 over-index)
| Genre | States |
|---|---|
| Corridos | 7 |
| Afrobeats | 7 |
| Gospel | 6 |
| Christian | 5 |
| Folk | 4 |
| Country | 4 |
| EDM / Reggaeton | 3 each |
| K-pop / House / Punk rock / R&B | 2 each |
| Techno / Rock / Indie / Lo-fi | 1 each |
Every state (over-index vs the 51-state average for that genre)
| State | #1 genre | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Gospel (2.51x) | Christian (1.57x) |
| Alaska | Techno (1.3x) | Phonk (1.28x) |
| Arizona | Corridos (3.36x) | Reggaeton (1.41x) |
| Arkansas | Rock (1.87x) | Gospel (1.77x) |
| California | Corridos (4.09x) | Reggaeton (2.16x) |
| Colorado | EDM (2.2x) | Corridos (1.72x) |
| Connecticut | Reggaeton (1.88x) | Afrobeats (1.39x) |
| Delaware | Afrobeats (1.85x) | R&B (1.7x) |
| District of Columbia | Afrobeats (5.13x) | Hip-hop (2.79x) |
| Florida | Reggaeton (2.61x) | Afrobeats (1.28x) |
| Georgia | Afrobeats (2.1x) | Gospel (2.1x) |
| Hawaii | K-pop (2.21x) | R&B (1.48x) |
| Idaho | Corridos (1.23x) | Indie (1.17x) |
| Illinois | Folk (2.52x) | Corridos (1.8x) |
| Indiana | Christian (1.25x) | Rock (1.08x) |
| Iowa | Country (1.25x) | Christian (1.19x) |
| Kansas | Corridos (1.27x) | Indie (1.26x) |
| Kentucky | Gospel (1.65x) | Country (1.53x) |
| Louisiana | Gospel (2.3x) | R&B (1.48x) |
| Maine | House (1.97x) | Folk (1.28x) |
| Maryland | Afrobeats (3.59x) | Hip-hop (3.03x) |
| Massachusetts | Afrobeats (1.69x) | Reggaeton (1.62x) |
| Michigan | Christian (1.17x) | Techno (1.16x) |
| Minnesota | EDM (1.27x) | K-pop (1.1x) |
| Mississippi | Gospel (2.95x) | Hip-hop (1.43x) |
| Missouri | Folk (1.21x) | Christian (1.2x) |
| Montana | Folk (1.33x) | Country (1.28x) |
| Nebraska | Corridos (1.31x) | Country (1.2x) |
| Nevada | Punk rock (3.66x) | Corridos (2.58x) |
| New Hampshire | Indie (1.7x) | Folk (1.26x) |
| New Jersey | Reggaeton (2.01x) | Afrobeats (1.64x) |
| New Mexico | Corridos (3.23x) | Emo (1.43x) |
| New York | Afrobeats (2.36x) | Reggaeton (1.75x) |
| North Carolina | Gospel (2.01x) | R&B (1.23x) |
| North Dakota | Country (1.28x) | Christian (1.16x) |
| Ohio | Christian (1.17x) | Heavy metal (1.12x) |
| Oklahoma | Christian (1.49x) | Lo-fi (1.35x) |
| Oregon | Lo-fi (1.48x) | Punk rock (1.35x) |
| Pennsylvania | Punk rock (1.28x) | Pop (1.09x) |
| Rhode Island | Afrobeats (1.95x) | Reggaeton (1.64x) |
| South Carolina | Gospel (2.22x) | Country (1.53x) |
| South Dakota | Christian (1.38x) | Country (1.25x) |
| Tennessee | Country (2.79x) | Gospel (1.8x) |
| Texas | Corridos (3.56x) | Reggaeton (1.83x) |
| Utah | K-pop (1.37x) | Punk rock (1.35x) |
| Vermont | Folk (1.69x) | Classical (1.35x) |
| Virginia | R&B (1.41x) | Afrobeats (1.39x) |
| Washington | EDM (1.56x) | Lo-fi (1.56x) |
| West Virginia | Country (1.59x) | Gospel (1.51x) |
| Wisconsin | House (1.3x) | EDM (1.12x) |
| Wyoming | R&B (3.61x) | Heavy metal (2.65x) |
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Method
- Source: Google search interest, US by state, web search, default 5-year window (about Oct 2021–Oct 2026).
- Queries: one query per genre keyword; 25 genres were pulled.
- Over-index: a state's index for a genre divided by that genre's mean across the 50 states plus DC.
- Exclusions: three genres dropped as ambiguous.
- "jazz" (the NBA's Utah Jazz)
- "blues" (the NHL's St. Louis Blues)
- "bluegrass" (Kentucky bluegrass, the grass and the region)
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aisong.lol Research. (2026). America's music map: every state's most over-searched genre. aisong.lol. https://aisong.lol/research/americas-music-map-every-states-most-over-searched-genre
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