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 South Shields
1	Freivyc Lai	153
2	1 Type	66
3	Mule	35
4	Jamilah	6
5	.D.J.P.	6
6	Dialect	5
7	Mountain Rio	5
8	Sarah Collins	5
9	Kulpa	4
10	Sorrow	4
11	Lily Brooke	3
12	The Outtakes	3
13	The Union Choir	3
14	Uncle Buzzcocks	3
15	Def-Con-One	3
16	The Loft Boys	3
17	E2D	3
18	Tee Dot Ohh	3
19	Tekzy	2
20	COHESION	2
21	Jack Fox	2
22	Crown Jewel Defense	2
23	Anyplace	2
24	Lucas Flow	2
25	Almighty VS. Back To Basics	2
26	Roberto Inglez Orshestra	2
27	Holding Out	2
28	Amelotte	2
29	Sister Wanzala	2
30	Lost Vital Spark	2
31	Tyler Faraday	2
32	Jen Stevens & The Hiccups	2
33	The Reverend Canon Peter Moger	2
34	White Legs	2
35	Mother Firefly	2
36	Callum Arthur	2
37	JERiCHO	2
38	Scars Run Deep	2
39	Ali D	2
40	LIBERTY ABSTRACT ART	2
41	District Attorney	2
42	Mark Brook	2
43	Cee Cee	2
44	Radiophonic Oddity	2
45	James Hoare	2
46	Langz	2
47	B.Leev	1
48	BLRRY	1
49	Rae Music	1
50	Itachi	1
51	Eyeris	1
52	Lady BLACK BIRD	1
53	Hyper Act	1
54	Lords Of Midnite	1
55	Shabba Ranks, Home T & Cocoa T	1
56	Cat Shell	1
57	Dj Petrik Maloy	1
58	Comfy Coffin	1
59	Thom Dudley	1
60	This Years Blonde	1
61	Spewis	1
62	D Town Brass	1
63	Choeur de la RTF	1
64	Michele Monro	1
65	First Class	1
66	Schuyler Robinson	1
67	RUman	1
68	Weather Network	1
69	Nohzo	1
70	Rob Aker	1
71	Orchestra Of Our Time, Joel Thorne, Conductor	1
72	Lilly Kristin	1
73	R Glendenning & others	1
74	Carina Ehrenholm	1
75	Laura Stein	1
76	Rainer Paul	1
77	Robert Lloyd/Robert Tear/Sam Monck/Dame Heather Begg/Catherine Benson/Cato Fordham/Catherine Wearing/Mary Wells/David Glick/Colin Huehns/Katherine Willis/Finchley Children's Music Group/Choral Scholars of King's College, Cambridge/John Cons	1
78	Mouthmotion	1
79	Dark Muse	1
80	Dude Royal	1
81	Ghost of Borsalino	1
82	Wael Kafuri	1
83	Peter Schön	1
84	Super Jam presents: Upper Layer Cruisers	1
85	Little Pink	1
86	The Diamond-Phillips Band	1
87	All in Motion	1
88	J. J. SUMMER	1
89	Babylon Motorhome (BMH)	1
90	MMFMoneyGod	1
91	Project Alfie	1
92	Talley Summerlin	1
93	Irritant	1
94	The Eventual	1
95	Sonovagun	1
96	Shyreen Zimmer	1
97	Lemingston Male Voice Choir	1
98	Hajime Komatsu	1
99	Dr. Spy.der	1
100	Lisa Kendrick	1
101	The New City Sound	1
102	Michael Andriano	1
103	Big Chief Mkuja	1
104	Max Van Berg	1
105	The Winter Hill Transmission	1
106	Diffraction	1
107	Oh Boy	1
108	PAASHA	1
109	Young Urban Parasites	1
110	Cygnus Wave	1
111	Tranquil Life	1
112	Trouble at Mill	1
113	Bloody Carnation	1
114	MLY	1
115	M.I.	1
116	Rich Fore$ight	1
117	Victor Cajiao	1
118	ZallaNayver	1
119	Stewart Hardy & Frank McLaughlin	1
120	1000 Miles	1
121	Accidental Angels	1
122	Petroleum	1
123	James Gray Robson & The Lovely Burn	1
124	Jem Pritchard	1
125	Joe Stronach	1
126	David Foster	1
127	Absinthè	1
128	ZaRealMusic	1
129	Benny Welton Orchestra	1
130	Juliana	1
131	Bidziil	1
132	Infinity8	1
133	Emily Moore	1
134	Joop De Kneght	1
135	Messiah 243	1
136	Darkness	1
137	Mingel	1
138	TERTULIIA	1
139	David Arkins	1
140	Pati Osterstock	1
141	Lisa Shelmerdine Richards	1
142	AutoStop	1
143	Lofi-Nonsense	1
144	Todd Rungren	1
145	J.G. Winter	1
146	Helga Jørgensen	1
147	Tissue Culture	1
148	the Last Composer	1
149	Defenders	1
150	Love Ethic	1
151	Charlie D	1
152	AudioFun	1
153	Caroline Schrope	1
154	Tameka Dawn	1
155	Danny K	1
156	Casa	1
157	Met Blue	1
158	A.L.A.M.I	1
159	Blueberry	1
160	Flashh	1
161	Drop Da Funk	1
162	Chip Langley	1
163	Smoke Decent	1
164	Renzo	1
165	Frencho	1
166	Beau	1
167	Shingles	1
168	Родимая	1
169	DiY Project	1
170	Sheetbooth	1
171	Margaret Leighton	1
172	Lyssa Nyx	1
173	Arafah Abian	1
174	Sawtooth Sucka	1