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	Under the Rocks	105
2	Zinnia	98
3	Sam Tudor	94
4	Kansas-Lee	84
5	Small Town Artillery	81
6	Sean Rodman	80
7	nightshades	74
8	Billie Zizi	68
9	Alex Mason	61
10	The Eisenhauers	55
11	Kaeley Jade	46
12	DirtFloor	44
13	Connor Roff	42
14	Trust This Mechanism	38
15	Rumour Mill	38
16	Marin Patenaude	35
17	The Misery Mountain Boys	32
18	DEFIED	25
19	Penny Shades	22
20	Scalawag	19
21	prophet.	16
22	The Definitive	15
23	Followthrough	14
24	Galactic Lion	12
25	Born on a Wednesday	11
26	Avery Florence	10
27	The Tarholes	10
28	Alissa Arnason	10
29	Talel McBriar	10
30	Sovosó	10
31	Savage Blade	9
32	Bella Cat	9
33	Stone Face Kid	8
34	AK-747s	7
35	Emma Rush	7
36	Seneca Schones	7
37	Sarah Orton	7
38	The Stonefruits	6
39	Pale Red	6
40	The History of Gunpowder	5
41	The Kill Rats	5
42	Quinton Armstrong	5
43	Gabriel Palatchi	4
44	Zoey Wren	4
45	Ymir Boat Club	4
46	Sp!lly	4
47	Red Eyed Soul	4
48	Sean + Ur Not	4
49	Melo.Nade	4
50	Ocean Blake	3
51	Melody Diachun	3
52	Young Braised	3
53	Jon Burden	3
54	Aeon Sphere	3
55	MAE B	3
56	BLOODRHINE	3
57	One Strong Goat	3
58	Johnny Johnson	3
59	Arthur Funkarelli	3
60	Invectrum	3
61	DJ KING	2
62	Held By Sound	2
63	Pacha Papa	2
64	Wut	2
65	Nicken	2
66	P Crook	2
67	DJ BMF	2
68	Tyler Stewart	2
69	Carl Strygg	2
70	Mahajana	2
71	Kali Kali Boys	2
72	Brutal Poodle	2
73	Christopher Temporelli	2
74	Jae Eun Jo	2
75	Claire Heffernan	2
76	Rachael Cardiello	2
77	Kodeine	2
78	Dana Lee	2
79	iLLann	2
80	Jotsido	2
81	FernLodge	2
82	GO/DEC	2
83	April Lavine	2
84	Olivia Sparkhall	2
85	Laughing Sickness	2
86	Robin Clements	2
87	Shotgun Divine	2
88	Severed Arm	2
89	Jesse Del Bosco	2
90	Tal	2
91	Emerald	2
92	Saw Sandy Naing	2
93	Clarence Dangerfield	2
94	Geoffrey Lundstrom	2
95	Don Bikoff	2
96	In This Mode	2
97	Youtaro	2
98	Bastid	1
99	Nemanja Mitrasevic	1
100	Gravy	1
101	Castle Burner	1
102	Cosmic Void	1
103	UplandNine	1
104	Duncan Berry	1
105	UltraFans Electronic	1
106	Ethelbert Miller	1
107	Armando Lôbo	1
108	Kim Weitkamp	1
109	The Honeycreepers	1
110	Vanessa Carly	1
111	Les Doux	1
112	Lisa Y. Ferraro	1
113	Russell and the Wolf Choir	1
114	geneva.b	1
115	Tinkertoy	1
116	Human Greed	1
117	Charles Jones and Cordell Reagon	1
118	John Daminato	1
119	Kate Wilde	1
120	Pierre Von Guersing	1
121	Thomas Duffy	1
122	Johnny Glasel	1
123	Maxim Novikov	1
124	Merja Sargon	1
125	DT ADE	1
126	Izah	1
127	Gilbert Bécaud - Angelo Pinto	1
128	Reverend Chris & The High Rollers	1
129	James Green	1
130	Dave Ronald	1
131	James Ussher	1
132	Hippo Disco	1
133	Charlie Pears-Smith	1
134	N3rgul	1
135	Jimmy Andrews	1
136	Maxtone	1
137	Héliodrome	1
138	Kangol	1
139	Wah-Chu-Ku	1
140	Cape Melodies	1
141	Ateleia	1
142	Chantal Aston	1
143	Martha P. Hogan	1
144	Miko Minded	1
145	Gregg Ashley	1
146	2 Of A Kind	1
147	Peter Mamakos	1
148	Ryan Stack Laser Show	1
149	Count Sticky & His Calypsonians	1
150	Cornflower Blue	1
151	Grupo Xitende Da Orquestra De Timbila	1
152	Graham Wells	1
153	Andy Thorn & Friends	1
154	son.a.urbe	1
155	Barbara & Wilson	1
156	Aslan Thakumache	1
157	Vladimir Kryukov	1
158	Dollska	1
159	Cavedweller	1
160	Siamsa Gaeldheal Ceildhe Band	1
161	When Elements Allign	1
162	Lough Gill Quartet	1
163	Kincora Ceilidhe Band	1
164	K. Scanlon	1
165	M. Stanford	1
166	White Devil Detroit	1
167	Missing Traits	1
168	Colin Osyrus	1
169	Tybox	1
170	Rachow	1
171	Margaret Boyle	1
172	Hemi & The Ruderunners	1
173	Karaoke - Emma Bunton	1
174	Ocelot & Vector Selector	1
175	Johnson & Burns	1
176	Léa- Pascale St-Hilaire	1
177	Pocket Dial	1
178	Ballinger JULIAN	1
179	Neak Mun The Uno	1
180	Kyle Briscoe	1
181	Why Gee	1
182	The WPP	1
183	Pat Dixon	1
184	Timyra-Joi	1
185	Reef Shark	1
186	Barbara Cassidy Band	1
187	Switch	1
188	Lighthouse Main Man	1
189	Kevin J Colver	1
190	Ted Drozdowski's Scissormen	1
191	La Nae	1
192	Relative Theory	1
193	Brother James Barbee	1
194	The Cam Neufeld Connection	1
195	RQntz	1
196	Leeah Duff	1
197	Rebecca Larson	1
198	Emilie Rose	1
199	Heartwood	1
200	Hank Shermann	1
201	Aiyana Rane	1
202	Robin Schorr	1
203	Bakhane	1
204	TotSaM	1
205	War For Your Money	1
206	Avi Kumar	1
207	Pathetic Little Dog	1
208	Wooden Horseman	1
209	JJ Symon & The Monochromes	1
210	KLARISA	1
211	Mr Fudge	1
212	Sky Thomas	1
213	Rosemary Blue	1
214	DADDY VEDA a.k.a REBEL BEATZ	1
215	Prorok Soundboy	1
216	Volkert Volkersz	1
217	Esselon	1
218	聖真	1
219	Raddog	1
220	Aphrodite	1
221	Worker Of Art	1
222	Dr. Ben & Company	1
223	Nauseous Skies	1
224	Sonic Reducer	1
225	Hot Live Guys	1
226	Distant Society	1
227	Artifice Palace	1
228	Samuel Joseph Hunter	1
229	V3DA	1
230	Sixth Ape	1
231	Kyla Hanna	1
232	The Grey Jays	1
233	Gordon Town Band	1
234	Matracas	1
235	Sky'high	1
236	Son of Luck	1
237	Delarive	1
238	Vladimir Voronin	1
239	Klaus Lehr	1