Musicians in New Jersey and beyond have undeniably put the Garden State on the map, regardless of the decade or genre.

Over the past week, readers submitted to us hundreds of rock, pop, punk and hip-hop songs, all of which share a common characteristic: A reference to New Jersey.

Some songs mention a town in the title, some note stores, streets, highways or the Turnpike — so many nods to the Turnpike — throughout their verses and choruses. And it's not all Bruce and Bon Jovi. Many pop-music legends, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Monkees, Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel, have all given the Garden State some lyrical love.

We combed through the submitted list of NJ tunes, added a few of our own and plotted as many of the songs by location as were applicable. Check out the interactive map below, zoom and click on the points to see a band, song title and Jersey-centric lyric.

Here are a few trends we noticed while perusing the ballads and anthems that forever lock New Jersey into music history:

• The Jersey song references almost perfectly mirror the state’s pockets of dense population. The list of tunes mentioning Newark, Jersey City, New Brunswick and the Jersey Shore is a long one. The list for Pohatcong, Pittstown and Penns Grove is … well … shorter.

• Several non-brand-name Jersey spots did make the cut, though. Saves the Day shouts “Highland Park” in “All-Star Me” and Catch 22 mentions “Glassboro” in “Bloomfield Ave.” Bedlight for Blue Eyes hates “Leaving Berkeley Heights” and The Gaslight Anthem fell in love with the stars in “Shrewsbury” in "Wooderson."

• As expected, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are heavy-hitters on the list, notching 25 songs with an NJ mention. Many of the lyrics mark spots along his old, Asbury Park stomping grounds, but many central Jersey locales get shout-outs, too.

• Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” and Billy Joel’s “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” were easily the most-submitted songs from our readers. Simon and Garfunkel’s “America” was a biggie, too.

• New Brunswick rockers The Gaslight Anthem clearly haven’t forgotten their roots. Much like Springsteen, from which the band draws distinct influence, Jersey is often worked into their lyrics. A handful of Gaslight tracks made the list.

• Hackensack appears in far more rock songs than we expected. It must be the town’s superior potential for rhyming words … back, black, heart attack-ack-ack.

• Our apologies if the song you submitted doesn’t appear on the map. Dozens of songs work “New Jersey” into their lyrics, but we often needed more specific locations. We did our best to space out all the Turnpike references.

Note: Our lyric map is not perfect. Some artists' references to New Jersey are fairly vague and we needed to generalize areas to plot a specific point on the map.

Star-Ledger staff writer Fred Kaimann contributed to this report.

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