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	Apollo Suns	111
2	Under the Rocks	105
3	Emily Millard	101
4	Rumour Mill	90
5	Small Town Artillery	81
6	CJ Wiley	57
7	Rachel Hickey	56
8	The Eisenhauers	55
9	Major Love	52
10	DirtFloor	44
11	Jennifer Hartswick	39
12	The Wooten Brothers	39
13	Trust This Mechanism	38
14	N. Sherman	38
15	Marin Patenaude	35
16	The Misery Mountain Boys	32
17	nightshades	31
18	Fearbirds	28
19	DEFIED	25
20	Earth Freaks	24
21	Penny Shades	22
22	Scalawag	19
23	prophet.	16
24	Lila Gray	14
25	Followthrough	14
26	Born on a Wednesday	12
27	Tenise Marie	12
28	Aysia Jordan	11
29	Alissa Arnason	10
30	Talel McBriar	10
31	Sovosó	10
32	The Hillties	9
33	Savage Blade	9
34	Bella Cat	9
35	Avery Florence	8
36	AK-747s	7
37	Emma Rush	7
38	Seneca Schones	7
39	The History of Gunpowder	5
40	Carter Felker	5
41	Rhoneil	5
42	Gabriel Palatchi	4
43	Meredith Bates	4
44	Marivon	4
45	BATH	4
46	Young Braised	4
47	Roman Rabinovich	4
48	Zoey Wren	4
49	Ymir Boat Club	4
50	Moonshine Shiver	3
51	The Tarholes	3
52	Ocean Blake	3
53	Gravy	3
54	Melody Diachun	3
55	Judy Brown	3
56	Jon Burden	3
57	DJ KING	2
58	Held By Sound	2
59	Laura Landsberg	2
60	Clover Point Drifters	2
61	Pacha Papa	2
62	Wut	2
63	Fixate	2
64	Nicken	2
65	P Crook	2
66	DJ BMF	2
67	Tyler Stewart	2
68	Carl Strygg	2
69	Mahajana	2
70	Kali Kali Boys	2
71	Brutal Poodle	2
72	Anemonus	1
73	Bastid	1
74	Greg Percy	1
75	Nemanja Mitrasevic	1
76	CallMeNil	1
77	The Five Wings	1
78	Astraeum	1
79	Castle Burner	1
80	Millionaire Men x Dj Sampl	1
81	Karen Poston	1
82	Cosmic Void	1
83	UplandNine	1
84	Duncan Berry	1
85	Sorna DJ	1
86	Disability	1
87	Freddie & The Hitch Hikers	1
88	Garry And Larry	1
89	Doppler Effect	1
90	Beefdonut	1
91	UltraFans Electronic	1
92	Ignition	1
93	Jim Henrickson	1
94	Ethelbert Miller	1
95	Armando Lôbo	1
96	Kim Weitkamp	1
97	The Honeycreepers	1
98	Sofiella Watt	1
99	Goissahannes	1
100	Vanessa Carly	1
101	Jesseye Hendricks	1
102	Monday I Retire	1
103	Les Doux	1
104	Jürgen Glauner	1
105	Sawhorse	1
106	Lisa Y. Ferraro	1
107	Araby	1
108	Puzzler	1
109	Russell and the Wolf Choir	1
110	Matthew Ryan Woods	1
111	Panic Syndrome	1
112	Mo Fire	1
113	Weird Black	1
114	Dad Shirt	1
115	King Rah	1
116	Noteworthy	1
117	geneva.b	1
118	Gas Blues Band	1
119	Starrs & Murph	1
120	Mark Lee Gardner	1
121	Jerry Rogers	1
122	Tinkertoy	1
123	Human Greed	1
124	Harold Payne & Faith Rivera	1
125	Charles Jones and Cordell Reagon	1
126	Ildiko Vekony	1
127	John Daminato	1
128	Kate Wilde	1
129	Pierre Von Guersing	1
130	Thomas Duffy	1
131	Johnny Glasel	1
132	Maxim Novikov	1
133	Merja Sargon	1
134	DT ADE	1
135	Izah	1
136	Gilbert Bécaud - Angelo Pinto	1
137	Reverend Chris & The High Rollers	1
138	James Green	1
139	Dave Ronald	1
140	James Ussher	1
141	Hippo Disco	1
142	Charlie Pears-Smith	1
143	N3rgul	1
144	Jimmy Andrews	1
145	Maxtone	1
146	Héliodrome	1
147	Kangol	1
148	Wah-Chu-Ku	1
149	Cape Melodies	1
150	Ateleia	1
151	Chantal Aston	1
152	Martha P. Hogan	1
153	Miko Minded	1
154	Gregg Ashley	1
155	2 Of A Kind	1
156	Peter Mamakos	1
157	Ryan Stack Laser Show	1
158	Count Sticky & His Calypsonians	1
159	Cornflower Blue	1
160	Grupo Xitende Da Orquestra De Timbila	1
161	Graham Wells	1
162	Andy Thorn & Friends	1
163	son.a.urbe	1
164	Barbara & Wilson	1
165	Aslan Thakumache	1
166	Vladimir Kryukov	1
167	Dollska	1
168	Cavedweller	1
169	Siamsa Gaeldheal Ceildhe Band	1
170	When Elements Allign	1
171	Lough Gill Quartet	1
172	Kincora Ceilidhe Band	1
173	K. Scanlon	1
174	M. Stanford	1