This chart is based on The Top 5 cities for each artist on Spotify. Therefore large cities will feature well known international artists, while smaller cities will feature some smaller local artists. The ranking is based on the number of listeners from the city, as provided by Spotify for the top 5 cities for each artist.

#	Artist	Listeners in Nelson
1	The Mary Column	13
2	Orphean Jet Sonic	13
3	Dark Peak	12
4	Late Night Sad Thoughts	12
5	Shapeshifted	11
6	John Cologon	11
7	The Creeping Candies	11
8	Potential Commotion	11
9	Johnny Boo	11
10	Heavy Praise	10
11	The Rotations	10
12	Babes Nyc	10
13	Stephen Moore Prophet	9
14	Breakaway-NE	9
15	It's Fucked	9
16	Mango Safari	9
17	Johnny Ferguson	8
18	Kamiel Thomas	8
19	angel.of.the.unknown	7
20	Storm Of Lions	7
21	David Jančij	7
22	Porn Grenade	7
23	Echoes For The Airwaves	6
24	Bradley Geordie	6
25	Weaveworld	6
26	John Ezzo	6
27	Mark Lajoie	6
28	Oracion	6
29	Suburban Symphony	5
30	Scud	5
31	yes but also no	5
32	The Everybody	4
33	Jake Dixon	3
34	The Folkestra	3
35	Gallows Pole	2
36	Peter Kaukonen	2
37	Noname	2
38	Seattle Junior	2
39	JVee	2
40	Static Smooth Sleep White Noise	2
41	Dridge Durkey	2
42	Mikey Dread with Singers & Players	1
43	Panties	1
44	Adam George Brown	1
45	Blind Leroy Garnett	1
46	Mt. Edgecumbe Boys Chorus	1
47	The Gravy Street	1
48	Laure Rivierre	1
49	Bourgogne Regional Choir	1
50	Jean-Pierre Quenaudon	1
51	Mekanic Duo	1
52	Ronny Starr	1
53	Larry Gee	1
54	whereispas	1
55	CHA!	1
56	Jet Set Aphrodite	1
57	Lyrical God	1
58	Jeff Reed	1
59	The Studebakers	1
60	Hard Rock Zombie	1
61	Analiza Ching	1
62	CAISY	1
63	Danny Tenaglia Pres The King Street Crew	1
64	Mongo Santamarina & His Orchestra	1
65	Agnieszka Kostencka	1
66	Joe Stocker	1
67	Singing Mouths	1
68	The Beats Boutique	1
69	Zvilnik	1
70	Lucy & The Caterpillar	1
71	Monster-K	1
72	Moos Waiter	1
73	Dave McKenzie	1
74	Jajah Prune	1
75	Nick Terry	1
76	The Statements	1
77	Adam Jay	1
78	Gene LaFond	1
79	Claude Khalud	1
80	Johnny Hawksworth	1
81	We Are Troubadour	1
82	Ra Gee Mammoyo	1
83	Jillienne Cherie	1
84	The Full Circle	1
85	Dimestore Darlings	1
86	Art Making Animals	1
87	Kaia Bryce	1
88	Iestyn Gwyn Jones	1
89	Attrix	1
90	The Roots	1
91	Cut N Shut	1
92	Fruitless Forest	1
93	Bill Gentry	1
94	Harpies	1
95	Supremen	1
96	Corsica!	1
97	Cvrrots	1
98	Screams of Youth	1
99	Nysa Sounds	1
100	Tanina Munchkina	1
101	Matthew Turner	1
102	Beard	1
103	Sorcery Night White Noise Sounds	1
104	Ranger	1
105	The Slowest Piano in the Universe	1
106	Sipeo	1
107	Mr. Capone-E feat. Amir Khan	1