# of recording artists per given area December 7, 2012 11:21 PM
 Subscribe  I'm making a chart showing the number of
musicians/recording artists per capita in different countries
and US states. What I need is a dataset with the number of
musicians in each area.  Clearly, this isn't totally easy
because not all jurisdictions require musicians to register with
the government, but I would be OK with slightly nonscientific
data instead.  I tried to pull the information off last.fm, but
the site only shows how many users used a tag, and how many
times it has been used. If I could find out how many artists on
last.fm have been tagged as "hungarian", that would be good.
Population data I can find myself.  I'm aware of the Million
Song Dataset, but I'm not a coder and don't think I could
wrangle the Python code to get what I want (and besides, would
rather not download a 200+GB file!) posted by dunkadunc to media
& arts (6 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite There
is no such generic database. Where DO m