DOWNTOWN — Downtown is where people from all over the city (and suburbs) come together, and the same apparently applies to music taste.
A look at the top song requests at jukeboxes in Downtown zip codes reveals a wide array of artists spanning several decades and genres. DNAinfo Chicago got its details from Touchtunes, a prevalent digital jukebox company, that provided a year of data from May 1, 2014 to April 30 that we broke down by zip code.
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The data shows contemporary pop stars like Pharrell, Beyonce and Taylor Swift are top dogs in some Downtown areas, but country acts George Strait and Marshall Tucker Band rule the 60602 zip code, which covers the State Street Macy's and other Loop landmarks. Elsewhere, River North and Streeterville never stopped believing in Journey.
Here are the top 10 most requested songs at Downtown zip codes:
Flickr/JeffreyZeldman
60610
Old Town/River North/Gold Coast
1) Taylor Swift, "Blank Space"
2) Taylor Swift, "Shake It Off"
3) Whitney Houston, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"
4) Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
5) Iggy Azalea, "Fancy"
6) Zac Brown Band, "Chicken Fried"
7) Garth Brooks, "Friends In Low Places"
8) R.Kelly, "Ignition (Remix)"
9) Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'"
10) The Rolling Stones, "Beast Of Burden"
Flickr/stankus
60611
Streeterville
1) Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'"
2) Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
3) The Rolling Stones, "Beast Of Burden"
4) Garth Brooks, "Friends In Low Places"
5) Katy Perry, "Dark Horse (Feat. Juicy J)"
6) Zac Brown Band, "Chicken Fried"
7) Taylor Swift, "Shake It Off"
8) Darius Rucker, "Wagon Wheel"
9) Guns N' Roses, "Sweet Child O' Mine"
10) Aloe Blacc, "The Man"
Flickr/ClarkMaxwell
60654
River North
1) Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'"
2) Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
3) Iggy Azalea, "Fancy"
4) AC/DC, "You Shook Me All Night Long"
5) Toto, "Africa"
6) Whitney Houston, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"
7) Enrique Iglesias, "Bailando (Feat. Descemer Bueno & Gente De Zona)"
8) Taylor Swift, "Blank Space"
9) Calvin Harris, "Summer"
10) Milky Chance, "Stolen Dance"
DNAinfo/Tanveer Ali
60601
The Loop
1) Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
2) Big Sean, "I Don't F--- With You"
3) Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Simple Man"
4) Roger Miller, "King of the Road"
5) Johnny Cash, "I Walk The Line"
6) Kid Rock, "Cowboy"
7) Spinners, "Rubberband Man"
8) Meghan Trainor, "All About That Bass"
9) Montrose, "Rock Candy"
10) Mark Ronson, "Uptown Funk (ft. Bruno Mars)"
Flickr/LearningLark
60602
Loop
1) George Strait, "Amarillo By Morning"
2) Marshall Tucker Band, "Can't You See"
3) Robin Thicke, "Blurred Lines (ft. T.I. & Pharrell)"
4) U2, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
5) Stevie Wonder, "Living For the City"
6) Kenny Chesney, "American Kids"
7) John Legend, "All Of Me"
8) Alex Clare, "Too Close"
9) Usher, "Good Kisser"
10) Don McLean, "American Pie"
Flickr/Tom Ipri
60603
The Loop
1) Beyonce, "Partition"
2) Katy Perry, "Dark Horse (Feat. Juicy J)"
3) Robin Thicke, "Blurred Lines (Feat. T.I. & Pharrell)"
4) Adele, "Rolling In The Deep"
5) Michael Jackson, "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) (With Will.I.Am)"
6) Justin Timberlake, "Suit & Tie (Feat. Jay Z)"
7) Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication"
8) Rihanna, "Talk That Talk (Feat. Jay Z)"
9) Daft Punk, "Get Lucky (Feat.Pharrell Williams)"
10) Beyonce, "7/11"
Flickr/Enfamous2j
60604
The Loop
1) Pharrell Williams, "Happy"
2) Eagles, "Hotel California"
3) Weezer, "Say It Ain't So"
4) Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
5) Rihanna, "S&M"
6) JAY Z, "Encore"
7) Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Otherside"
8) 2Pac, "Toss It Up"
9) R.Kelly, "Strip For You"
10) Daft Punk, "One More Time"
Flickr/reillyandrew
60605
South Loop / The Loop
1) Queen, "Fat Bottomed Girls"
2) Taylor Swift, "Shake It Off"
3) Meghan Trainor, "All About That Bass"
4) Taylor Swift, "Blank Space"
5) Garth Brooks, "Friends In Low Places"
6) Van Morrison, "Brown Eyed Girl"
7) Zac Brown Band, "Chicken Fried"
8) Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'"
9) Katy Perry, "Dark Horse (Feat. Juicy J)"
10) Mark Ronson, "Uptown Funk (Feat. Bruno Mars)"
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