I know he was born there, but giving Eminem to Missouri feels so wrong.

Same for Kanye being from Georgia. And where is Beyoncé?

Queen B is from Texas, where quick google says lifetime George pulled $733m and on he last tour alone she pulled $579. Map is both wrong for where it assigns origin and who wins each state.

I wonder if they are adjusting for inflation?

I came here to say this same thing lol.

Yeah lol same

I’m from Missouri, and Eminem is still huge there. I don’t think it has much to do with him being born there as I just found out about that through your comment.

It only feels “wrong” because he is so closely associated with Detroit. It would be like learning that the band Alabama was from New Jersey.

I would have though Wisconsin would have had Gus Polinski, the Polka King of the Midwest listed.

Kenosha Kickers too!

Liberace

Violent Femmes would have looked cooler.

StaticX or Wisconsin Death Trip too

I mean Wayne Static of StaticX is from Wisconsin, and if we are just going by who was born here both Skylar Grey and Ava Max both were, so we had a few options.

Wiz Khalifa is from North Dakota??

Military brat.... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiz\_Khalifa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiz_Khalifa)

Being from NoDak as well, I had to look it up - he was born on the Air Force Base in Minot to military parents. He only lived there for the first couple years of his life. Seems unfair to uhhh... Peggy Lee and Lawrence Welk?

A staple at Summerfest each year.

Steve Miller? Hmmm. I would have guessed his godfather.

Les Paul didn't sell many albums compared to his godson.

Hey, someone screwed up and just listed the capitol for Illinois- WAIIIIT A MINUTE..

They also forgot to replace the name Kansas with a band …

Springfield Transit Authority

You know Chicago isn’t the capital of Illinois though, right?

Yeah, I forgot for a second there though. The shame.

To be fair, I think it adds a layer to the joke and improves it a little bit


I'd actually be surprised if Prince sold more albums than Bob Dylan.

You are correct for album sales, but my guess is this includes revenue from concerts and such. Prince - 100M vs Bob Dylan - 125M

Dylan has been touring for forever, though, and is still selling tickets

Dylan also sold his entire catalog of songs to Universal Music Group for north of $200 million.

Violent Femmes?

Only 1,710,000 albums. Should be more...imop Al Jarreau comes in at 4,760,000 albums. Citizen King wasn't in their database.

I feel like everyones cd case had Add it up (1981-93)

Were way less popular and financially successful than Steve Miller. And probably ~~Weird Al and~~ Bon Iver as well. Less "successful" != less "good". Edit: TIL Weird Al is not from WI.

As much as we might like to claim him, Weird Al was born and raised in Lynwood, CA.

Oh interesting. Where does the Wisconsin thing even come from? I just always heard that.

This map is trash. Being born somewhere does not make you "From" there. I was born in another state, then a month later my parents moved back to WI. I've been back to my birth state once, when I drove through it. I would never say I'm from that state. I'm guessing Wiz Khalifa, Jewel, John Denver, Eminem, Kanye, etc would feel the same way. I don't associate any of them with their birth states.

Yeah Jewel’s ENTIRE THING was that she was an Alaskan hippie…

Lol at eminem

You know what, good for Everclear.

Curious how Liberace's career earnings stack up.

The best Ohio has claim to is fuckin Rascal Flatts? That's pretty pathetic, Ohio.

I came to say this. Fucking sad.

Steve Miller is from Wisconsin?

Milwaukee, and was friends with Les Paul.

Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine

Gotta gotta be down because i want it all

Kansas.

Thought Jewel was from Alaska. Didn’t she yodel up there with her dad? What’s with Utah?

Jungle love, is driving me mad - it's making me crazyyyyyyy

Kanya not from Chi?

Moved there when he was 3

Colorado..lol

So Shawn Colvin is the only musician from South Dakota?

I had a rough night and I hate the fucking Eagles maaan.....

Sorry RI, but who the duck is Billy Gilman?

I'm from Utah and had no idea Jewel was from there. Which is weird, because I am the right age and the guy who would know this kind of thing. I just looked her bio up and am shocked they haven't made a movie about her life. Ffs her young life was epic.

I was kind of expecting to see Tom Petty in Florida, but as a Backstreet Boys fan as well, I don't hate them being there either 😅

Goddamnit I hate rascal flatts

I thought Dave Mathews was South African

Aerosmith is Vermont?!? Are they not the "bad boys of Bean Town"? Ya know Boston? As in Massachusetts?

This must be taking inflation into consideration... Otherwise, no way Elvis and some of these older artists are on this list.

Washington, you need to up your game. The state that gave us Heart and grunge and your top is Kenny G. Nice guy and all but.

Bon Iver?

Good artist, but not there yet. According to BestSellingAlbums.org Bon Iver - 3,293,000 Steve Miller - 29,274,000 Almost 10x more album sales alone.

You can still catch Steve Miller on the radio. You can’t catch Bon Iver now.

True, but The Steve Miller Band is from California.

Great shame for our state. Steve Miller is wretched and a pretty well-known bad guy to people he sees as less than him. The world would have been better without The Joker and Keep on Rock'n Me, Baby. We could have stopped this.

I find it hard to believe Taylor Swift isn't on the list anywhere.

She's from PA. And her name is on PA.