Is Your State A Little Bit Country or A Little Bit Rock ‘N’ Roll?

In a clash of the digital sheet music genres, it looks like country and rock ‘n’ roll are somewhat evenly matched, according to the shopping patterns of U.S. musicians.

Inspired by songwriter Marty Cooper’s classic tune “A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock ‘N Roll“® (as performed on ‘Donny & Marie’), our stat-savvy data team explored a year’s worth of U.S. sales data to determine where, geographically, country or rock sheet music proved to be most popular. Country sheet music was defined by any song with a ‘country’ tag on the website, while rock consisted of sub-genres ‘arena rock,’ ‘classic rock,’ ‘hard rock‘ and ‘rock & roll.’

Overall, Americans download more rock sheet music than country sheet music, although only by about 5%. And the two genres together make up a little over 10% of Musicnotes annual sales. But, when comparing individual country sheet music and rock sheet music sales stats by state, as a percentage of the state’s total digital sheet music downloads, 26 states (plus D.C.) more frequently purchased country sheet music and 24 states more frequently bought rock.

While country music is most likely to sit atop any given Southern or Midwestern music stand, musicians on the East and West Coasts prefer to rock the house. Those states represented by the lightest blue and green colors above just narrowly lean toward one genre over the other, with darker colored states strongly favoring their musical category.

Watch the Donny & Marie Osmand YouTube video for a little bit more about “A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock ‘N Roll.” And a special thanks to songwriter Marty Cooper for allowing us to use his song as inspiration and offer it on our site for your digital sheet music downloading pleasure! Download “A Little Bit Country – A Little Bit Rock ‘n Roll” here!