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	1 Type	66
2	Mule	35
3	.D.J.P.	6
4	Dialect	5
5	Sarah Collins	5
6	Kulpa	4
7	Sorrow	4
8	Lily Brooke	3
9	The Outtakes	3
10	The Union Choir	3
11	Mountain Rio	3
12	Uncle Buzzcocks	3
13	Def-Con-One	3
14	The Loft Boys	3
15	E2D	3
16	Tee Dot Ohh	3
17	Tekzy	2
18	COHESION	2
19	Jack Fox	2
20	Crown Jewel Defense	2
21	Anyplace	2
22	Lucas Flow	2
23	Holding Out	2
24	Amelotte	2
25	Sister Wanzala	2
26	Lost Vital Spark	2
27	Tyler Faraday	2
28	Jen Stevens & The Hiccups	2
29	The Reverend Canon Peter Moger	2
30	White Legs	2
31	Mother Firefly	2
32	Callum Arthur	2
33	JERiCHO	2
34	Scars Run Deep	2
35	Ali D	2
36	LIBERTY ABSTRACT ART	2
37	District Attorney	2
38	Mark Brook	2
39	Cee Cee	2
40	Radiophonic Oddity	2
41	James Hoare	2
42	Langz	2
43	B.Leev	1
44	BLRRY	1
45	Rae Music	1
46	Itachi	1
47	Eyeris	1
48	Lady BLACK BIRD	1
49	Hyper Act	1
50	Lords Of Midnite	1
51	Shabba Ranks, Home T & Cocoa T	1
52	Cat Shell	1
53	Dj Petrik Maloy	1
54	Comfy Coffin	1
55	Thom Dudley	1
56	This Years Blonde	1
57	Spewis	1
58	D Town Brass	1
59	Choeur de la RTF	1
60	Michele Monro	1
61	First Class	1
62	Schuyler Robinson	1
63	RUman	1
64	Weather Network	1
65	Nohzo	1
66	Rob Aker	1
67	Orchestra Of Our Time, Joel Thorne, Conductor	1
68	R Glendenning & others	1
69	Carina Ehrenholm	1
70	Laura Stein	1
71	Rainer Paul	1
72	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
73	Mouthmotion	1
74	Dark Muse	1
75	Dude Royal	1
76	Ghost of Borsalino	1
77	Wael Kafuri	1
78	Peter Schön	1
79	Super Jam presents: Upper Layer Cruisers	1
80	Little Pink	1
81	The Diamond-Phillips Band	1
82	All in Motion	1
83	J. J. SUMMER	1
84	Babylon Motorhome (BMH)	1
85	MMFMoneyGod	1
86	Project Alfie	1
87	Talley Summerlin	1
88	Irritant	1
89	The Eventual	1
90	Sonovagun	1
91	Shyreen Zimmer	1
92	Lemingston Male Voice Choir	1
93	Hajime Komatsu	1
94	Dr. Spy.der	1
95	Lisa Kendrick	1
96	The New City Sound	1
97	Michael Andriano	1
98	Big Chief Mkuja	1
99	Max Van Berg	1
100	The Winter Hill Transmission	1
101	Diffraction	1
102	Oh Boy	1
103	PAASHA	1
104	Young Urban Parasites	1
105	Cygnus Wave	1
106	Tranquil Life	1
107	Trouble at Mill	1
108	Bloody Carnation	1
109	MLY	1
110	M.I.	1
111	Rich Fore$ight	1
112	Victor Cajiao	1
113	ZallaNayver	1
114	Stewart Hardy & Frank McLaughlin	1
115	1000 Miles	1
116	Accidental Angels	1
117	Petroleum	1
118	James Gray Robson & The Lovely Burn	1
119	Jem Pritchard	1
120	Joe Stronach	1
121	David Foster	1
122	Absinthè	1
123	ZaRealMusic	1
124	Benny Welton Orchestra	1
125	Juliana	1
126	Bidziil	1
127	Infinity8	1
128	Emily Moore	1
129	Joop De Kneght	1
130	Messiah 243	1
131	Darkness	1
132	Mingel	1
133	TERTULIIA	1
134	David Arkins	1
135	Pati Osterstock	1
136	Lisa Shelmerdine Richards	1
137	AutoStop	1
138	Lofi-Nonsense	1
139	Todd Rungren	1
140	J.G. Winter	1
141	Helga Jørgensen	1
142	Tissue Culture	1
143	the Last Composer	1
144	Defenders	1
145	Love Ethic	1
146	Charlie D	1
147	AudioFun	1
148	Caroline Schrope	1
149	Tameka Dawn	1
150	Danny K	1
151	Casa	1
152	Met Blue	1
153	A.L.A.M.I	1
154	Blueberry	1
155	Flashh	1
156	Drop Da Funk	1
157	Chip Langley	1
158	Smoke Decent	1
159	Renzo	1
160	Frencho	1
161	Beau	1
162	Shingles	1
163	Родимая	1
164	DiY Project	1
165	Sheetbooth	1
166	Margaret Leighton	1
167	Lyssa Nyx	1
168	Arafah Abian	1
169	Sawtooth Sucka	1