High Five: Five European cities you may not know are a favorite topic for songwriters Life in a big city offers a lot of material for song lyrics. A look at millions of songs has produced a ranking of the cities sung about the most.

It’s easy to guess the winner in the worldwide ranking of cities that inspired the most songs: New York, with a whopping 30,867 songs. That’s according to a study by a travel agency and a lyrics online platform that scanned 14 million international song texts for city names.