Albany-Schenectady-Troy Ranks HIGH On Best U.S. Cities For Music Fans List

A new study is out that ranks the best and worst places to live for music fans and let me tell you ... we're in a good spot!

Now I don't know about you but when the prospect of moving to a new city arises one of the first things I check out is the music scene. I grew up in a city that was just overflowing with music and I've definitely lived in some places since that were seriously lacking so you bet that the music factor played a big role in my decision to move to the Capital Region (that and the fact that the Q was willing to pay me to do the thing I love more than life).

A new study has come out from the researches from Value Penguin, which I just happened to come across while catchin' up on my music news, that has taken 15 different data points grouped into three categories to determine the Best Cities For Music Fans in 2016! Now some of the cities on list are no brainers but some might just surprise you. Like the fact that the Capital Region is coming in pretty hot on this list and making the top 10! So without further ado ... The Top 10 Best Cities For Music Fans In 2016 are ...

01. Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN
02. Urban Honolulu, HI
03. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
04. Madison, WI
05. Austin-Round Rock, TX
06. Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
07. Tucson, AZ
08. Rochester, NY
09. Pittsburgh, PA
10. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

#6 Albany-Schenctady-Troy comes in at #6! #6 in the country! Not to shabby for the Cap City! Now that there is definitive proof you are in the right spot weather you're a transplant or a native the rest of the list really shouldn't matter but I suppose if you are for some reason forced to move elsewhere I could give you 40 more options to look into.

11. Salt Lake City, UT
12. Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
13. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
14. Eugene, OR
15. Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
16. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
17. Asheville, NC
18. Burlington-South Burlington, VT
19. Boulder, CO
20. Binghamton, NY
21. Wilmington, NC
22. Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA
23. Fort Collins, CO
24. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
25. Duluth, MN-WI
26. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
27. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
28. Sioux Falls, SD
29. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
30. New Orleans-Metairie, LA
31. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
32. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
33. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
34. Trenton, NJ
35. Colorado Springs, CO
35. Lincoln, NE
37. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT
38. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
39. Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
40. Gainesville, FL
41. Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
42. St. Louis, MO-IL
43. Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY
44. Appleton, WI
45. Champaign-Urbana, IL
45. Lynchburg, VA
47. Charlottesville, VA
48. Rockford, IL
49. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
50. Portland-South Portland, ME