Coming soon
The influence network
A directed graph of rock's influence relationships, built from Wikidata's P737 (influenced by) statements. Each artist is a node, each citation is an edge. The Beatles and Bob Dylan sit at the center as the most-cited sources; punk, metal, and indie subscenes form their own dense clusters.
- 15K+ artists indexed
- 2,200+ P737 edges
- 120 subgenre nodes
- 500 in curated 500
What's planned here
A client-side, force-directed graph: every artist a node sized by PageRank, every P737 citation an edge. Click a node to highlight its 1–2 hop neighborhood. Filter by genre, era, or country to peel back layers.
The data already exists — see the methodology page for how it's built. The rendering pipeline is what's still in progress.
Today's signal — most-cited artists in the 500-band canon
From the 1,000+ inbound P737 edges across the curated bands, the most-cited influencers are the names you'd expect:
- The Beatles — 18 inbound citations
- Led Zeppelin — 18
- The Stooges — 18
- The Rolling Stones — 17
- The Who — 17
- Sex Pistols — 16
- Black Sabbath — 14
- The Clash — 13
- The Ramones — 13
- Jimi Hendrix Experience — 12