World Map
Every instrumental pianist with 500,000+ Spotify monthly listeners: where they are based, how big they are, and who is in your scene. The core list is pianists releasing their own compositions. It opens on that list alone. Interpreters — classical performers and cover pianists — composers and historical composers are toggles you switch on above the map. Sleep and study projects and singer-pianists are excluded.
Ranked
| # | Artist | Based | Monthly listenersListeners | Followers | Change / weekWk | MomentumMo | LegacyLeg |
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Click a circle or a row.
Who is touring, and where
Every upcoming show for the pianists on this map, grouped by city. Bigger dots mean more shows; gold means a show within 30 days. Pick an artist to trace their route in date order.
| Date | Artist | City | Venue | Tickets |
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Who carries this scene
Every playlist these pianists are shown as “discovered on”, pooled across the whole map. Bars count how many of the pianists each playlist carries. Click a playlist to see which ones. Spotify reports at most 100 playlists per artist, so these are placements within that sample.
Where the audience is
Everyone shown above, added up by platform and by country, with the biggest account on each platform. Counts come from each public profile; Instagram rounds anything over 10,000.
How to read this
- Coverage. Built from three sources merged: Wikidata (every listed pianist with a Spotify ID), a crawl of Spotify's "Fans also like" graph from ~230 seed pianists across every sub-scene, and kworb's global top-listener ranking as a safety net. Each artist over 500k was categorised from its bio by a language model, then reviewed.
- Location is where the artist is based or from (bio first, then Wikidata birthplace, then MusicBrainz). It is not where they are listened to — that is the "top cities" line in the side panel.
- Artist cards combine Spotify (exact play counts for top tracks, playlists the artist is discovered on, catalog and latest release, label), Deezer fans, Wikipedia daily pageviews, Google Trends interest (scaled so 100% = Ludovico Einaudi), TikTok sound usage, and Bandsintown dates.
- Social media view. Instagram, YouTube and TikTok followers are read from each public profile (Instagram rounds large numbers, marked ≈). A piano creator is included when piano is the main content of their feed and they have 500,000+ followers on at least one platform; every account was checked against the creator's own links before it was listed. Pianists from the Spotify map appear with the public accounts they have; historical composers have none, so they are not in this view. Leans toward weights each platform by how well it predicts real listening (YouTube 0.43, Instagram 0.35, TikTok 0.22).
- Change / week compares monthly listeners with the snapshot taken about a week earlier (first snapshot Sept 23, 2026; new ones weekly). When two snapshots are further apart, the change is shown as an average weekly rate. The side panel also shows change since the first snapshot.