A Waste Land

Last.fm data used to plot bands and tags by their gender ratio and average listener age. The plots suggest that men go much more heavily into hard rock and metal, as well as progressive rock, jazz fusion and ambient. Women seem to prefer more “emotive” music, going for folk, indie pop and especially j-pop, k-pop and female vocals (Ani DiFranco comes to mind).

There’s also a demo where you can get your own top listened artists in a map to determine your listening age and gender ratio. Mine is at http://playground.last.fm/demo/genderplot/plot?period=12month&artists=80&users=purplepenguins.