You might be tempted to joke "WHEN do people listen to Rich Thomsen?" Nobody is handing out that data yet, but I've got some fun tidbits to share. The first relates to the music I've been releasing since the beginning of 2014.
My distributor, CDBABY, shares some location data for sales and streams, which I sat down to review this evening. While I only get state information for iTunes sales, I can map out buyers and streamers by country for all the music outlets. As you can gather from the map below, I've got listeners in 3 continents and 8 states!
Thank you for your support! It seems like everyone wants their music for free these days; I really appreciate folks who take the time to buy independent music or add your favorites to a playlist on a streaming service. Those contributions, no matter how small, will help encourage the continued creation of new sounds for everyone to enjoy.
So enough about my music stats...how did I put the above picture together? Did you know you could create maps like this in seconds using Excel 2013 and a 'Bing Maps' add-on? I'm not an Office power user, but I can say with confidence that it's really easy to do. My wife showed me how to do it in minutes, and I found a blog with more detailed instructions here:
With Excel 2013 it didn't even care whether I entered country abbreviations, zip codes, or state names: how cool is that!
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