Jessica Durando

USA TODAY

We all know that artists such as Jay-Z, Drake, Lorde and Kanye West are popular across the USA.

What's more interesting is that Floridians listened to more Rick Ross than residents of any other state in the country. People in Washington listened to The Head and the Heart more often than music fans anywhere else, according to a recent survey.

Paul Lamere of The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company, found each state's distinctive artist by aggregating what online listeners played on streaming music services.

For this study, the company tracked which songs were played the most among users that have ZIP codes associated with their accounts and applied the data to the artist level.

The specific music services used to collect the data were not disclosed, but the firm works regularly with Clear Channel's iHeartradio, Rdio, Rhapsody and SiriusXM.

Call it intuition, but as a New Jersey native, I knew what the Garden State's artist would be before looking at the map: Bruce Springsteen! We take care of our own as the Boss says.

Speaking of loyalty, it is no surprise that Phish was listened to in Vermont most frequently. Phish did start in Burlington.

"People have very visceral reactions to what they see on the map," Lamere said told USA TODAY Network. "People are really engaged in music. They want to talk about it."

The study is based on the listening behavior of a quarter-million online music listeners.

Pretty cool stuff.

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