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Best Selling Musical Artists By English County of Origin

March 3, 2023 28 Comments

Best Selling Musical Artists By English County of Origin

Map created by reddit user uvbseventysix

The map above shows the best selling singer, musical artist or band from each of England’s 48 ceremonial counties. The criteria seems to be where someone has grown up rather than necessarily where they were born.

And if you’re curious we’ve previously published previous maps about the Best Selling Singer Or Band From Each London Borough and Best Selling Singer, Music Artist or Band From Each US State.

Filed Under: United Kingdom

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Comments

  1. jai emmett says

    August 8, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    Joss Stone is from Devon. I’m guessing Kate Bush would be the biggest artist from Kent!

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    • Chester says

      August 11, 2018 at 1:41 pm

      Rolling Stones are surely biggest selling from Kent. They were from Dartford. Joss Stone was BORN in Dover but yeh grew up in Devon, whereas Muse were formed in Devon but not born there! Ed Sheeran is from Framlingham in Suffolk (but wasn’t born there).
      It’s a great map and source for debate but the methodology is a bit off…

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      • Chris adams says

        June 26, 2021 at 7:47 pm

        Yep ..I reckon that pink floyd , from Cambridgeshire have easily outsold Olivia newton john tbh.

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  2. Bill Brewster says

    August 9, 2018 at 7:52 am

    Hi there. Jethro Tull we’re from Blackpool which according to your map has moved to a commutable distance to London. Pet Shop Boys also from Blackpool. Heatwave’s (and Michael Jackson collaborator) Rod Temperton was from Humberstone in North Lincs and surely outsold Nicola Bloody Roberts?

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    • Angela P says

      November 18, 2020 at 7:03 am

      Only just found this website, thank you lockdown. I couldn’t let this comment pass. Chris Lowe may be from Blackpool but Neil Tennant is from North Shields. It won’t change North Tyneside’s biggest selling artist, I think Sting has still got that.

      Reply
  3. Saskia O'Hara says

    August 9, 2018 at 10:14 am

    This map is definitely not correct, in fact it’s bizarre. For example, where are The Rolling Stones?!

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    • Bruce says

      August 12, 2018 at 4:19 pm

      You’d think they should be in London, but they’re probably in the Cayman Islands.

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      • David says

        June 24, 2020 at 10:53 pm

        The Stones have been registered for decades at an Amsterdam canal house address. In the same way IKEA has been Dutch too.

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    • Gadzooks says

      August 13, 2018 at 4:11 am

      I noticed too – Elton appears to have out-sold them. And he still has the nerve to call Keef “an old wallet that mumbles.” 😀

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    • Chris says

      April 16, 2020 at 9:36 am

      LA mostly, surely, some are in heaven

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  4. Adam Leslie says

    August 9, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    The Dorset one is incorrect – ELP were a London act. Only Greg was from Dorset, the other two were from Yorkshire and Birmingham. Supergroups by definitions surely don’t count – that’s like saying The Monkees were Manchester’s top-selling act. I think Dorset should actually be PJ Harvey.

    Also, if the criteria is where someone grew up, Nicola Roberts is from Cheshire, she was only born in Lincolnshire. The Lincolnshire one should probably really be Matthews Southern Comfort.

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  5. Robert Smyth says

    August 10, 2018 at 7:23 am

    Great map but there are some surprising omissions. Where are Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones? Also Phil Collins, Ed Sheehan and the Bee Gees? Coldplay, Fleetwood Mac also don’t feature and Dire Straits were pretty big too

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    • Gregg says

      December 3, 2018 at 3:54 pm

      I don’t think you understand this map. They’re all from counties where another artist has sold more records than them.

      In fact all but two acts you mentioned are from London! (Ed Sheeran was born in West Yorks but grew up in Suffolk, and the Bee Gees were born in the Isle of Man but grew up in Manchester.)

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  6. Vandenbussche says

    August 10, 2018 at 10:29 am

    And about Europe Rock artists ?
    Lucos

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  7. Peter Hardy says

    August 10, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    No one from Rutland? At all?

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    • Gregg says

      December 3, 2018 at 3:55 pm

      Pretty much the only musician to have spent time in Rutland is Jay Kay of Jamiroquai, who went to school there.

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    • Joshua K. says

      November 23, 2021 at 3:43 am

      I think Eric Idle and Neil Innes would have something to say about that.

      Reply
  8. Joanne McQueen says

    August 10, 2018 at 4:10 pm

    Can you buy this map? If so where and how much please?

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  9. Christian says

    August 11, 2018 at 6:33 am

    Yeah Oliva Newton John is an Aussie for a start and wheres Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones?

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    • Carl says

      August 14, 2018 at 5:14 am

      Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge and lived there until she was 6.

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  10. Geoff says

    August 12, 2018 at 4:04 pm

    Pink Floyd for Cambridgeshire, Led Zeppelin for Warwickshire surely?

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  11. Lambad says

    August 14, 2018 at 9:40 am

    No one from Rutland? Ha ha what about The Rutles?

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  12. Rcee says

    September 6, 2018 at 12:01 pm

    Humberside. What about the Housemartins. Beautiful South and Fatboy Slim.

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    • MjH says

      November 1, 2018 at 9:50 am

      That’s the East Riding of Yorkshire, not Humberside. That was abolished in 1996.

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  13. Hugo Shellabear says

    September 6, 2018 at 3:31 pm

    where the kinks!! ..but great effort ..love the map

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  14. david burnham says

    October 31, 2018 at 10:43 pm

    Surely the Arctic Monkeys have outsold Shed Seven? Or have i got my geography wrong?

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    • MJ says

      November 22, 2018 at 9:45 pm

      Shed Seven are shown in North Yorkshire (they’re from York I think?) – Arctic Monkeys are from just outside Sheffield (South Yorkshire: shown as Def Leppard on the map)

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  15. RJB says

    October 31, 2018 at 11:55 pm

    Arctic Monkeys anyone? Shed 7 sold about 7

    Reply

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