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Here are America's top 40 most musical colleges and what they’re listening to

After analyzing data from their student subscription campaign, streaming music service Spotify has been able to identify the top 40 universities that listen to the most music. The company has also managed to identify distinctive genre, artist and even song preferences of each school’s respective student body.

For example, Ohio State’s favorite artist is Childish Gambino. While Michigan State’s most popular artist is Lana Del Rey. The top song at NYU is Calvin Harris’ “Summer.”

You can see the full list of colleges below. It’s important to note that there’s no particular order to the list. To see each individual school’s musical stats, just click on its link. From there, you can see each school’s favorite artists, genres, songs and more.

First, here are some fascinating insights from Spotify:

“-In “the city that never sleeps,” listening patterns indicate that NYU students get an hour’s less sleep on average. They also listen to more slowcore and hipster playlists.

-Cornell University listening spikes at 6am and 7am (right). One possibility: its students wake up and exercise before class more than those at other schools.

-University of Colorado Boulder students play our study-oriented Focus playlists the most. They’re also top streamers of Relax.

-Who listens to the happiest songs? it’s Iowa State, followed closely by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, University of Georgia, and University of Alabama.

-Texas A&M appears to follow fads and trends less than the other schools.

-Northeastern students enjoy metal, jazz, and Christian music, but not juggalos or listening at night.

-Ohio State listens to the most classical.

-Boston EDM duo Timeflies is really popular at Iowa State, relative to other schools. They played a show there in 2012, which appears to have gone well.

-Penn State kids rock out on high-energy music, R&B, punk, and the EDM artist Hardwell way more than the kids at the other schools.

-You can find fans of fast skatepunk music at Purdue.

-Students at the University of Alabama listen to country music at about twice the average rate (right). They also listen more to sleep-themed playlists.

-Speaking of which, Brigham Young goes to bed the earliest and wakes up the earliest, which might have something to do with its midnight visitor curfew (1:30am on Fridays).

-The top Latin music schools are University of Pennsylvania, University of Florida, andUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities.

-The University of Washington listens to the longest, most instrumental music.

-Peak listening is 4pm across all of the schools.”

And here's Spotify's Top 40 Most Musical Universities in America:

1. Arizona State University

2. Auburn University

3. Brigham Young University

4. California Polytechnic State University

5. Cornell University

6. Florida State University

7. Georgia Institute Of Technology

8. Indiana University Bloomington

9. Iowa State University

10. Miami University

11. Michigan State University

12. New York University

13. Northeastern University

14. Ohio State University

15. Pennsylvania State University

16. Purdue University

17. Texas A&M University

18. Texas Tech University

19. University Of Alabama

20. University Of Arizona

21. University Of Arkansas Fayetteville

22. University Of California Berkeley

23. University Of California Los Angeles

24. University Of Central Florida

25. University Of Colorado Boulder

26. University Of Florida

27. University Of Georgia

28. University Of Illinois Urbana Champaign

29. University Of Michigan Ann Arbor

30. University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

31. University Of Missouri Columbia

32. University Of North Texas

33. University Of Oklahoma

34. University Of Pennsylvania

35. University Of Southern California

36. University Of Texas Austin

37. University Of Virginia

38. University Of Washington

39. University Of Wisconsin Madison

40. Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University

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