discover / experiment 12

similarity explorer

Start from an artist, hop to a related one, repeat. “Related” comes from music metadata; the numbers are my play counts. There is no similarity score here — only who is linked to whom, and how much of each I’ve played.

start from

current artist1 plays · #3433

Ray Charles

jazz · soul · blues · rhythm and blues

related, and in my archive (4)

James Brown
1 plays
shared: soul, rhythm and blues, blues
Louis Armstrong
18 plays
shared: jazz, blues
Nina Simone
1 plays
shared: jazz, soul, blues
Ella Fitzgerald
1 plays
shared: jazz, blues

related, never played (11)

Aretha FranklinOtis ReddingEtta JamesSam CookeB.B. KingRuth BrownNat King ColeJohn Lee HookerFats DominoWilson PickettDinah Washington

listed in the order the metadata source ranks them · shared tags are tags both artists carry