Earlier this week a TimeOut article popped up in my feed earlier this week about the the ranking of cities around the world based on on analytics from Betway. Melbourne was crowned the third-best city for Street Art, trailing behind London (second) and Paris (first). Based on number of murals, social media engagement, articles and Google searches, these are the top 20 Street Art Hotspots:
What do you think? Note that the “number of street art murals” actually links to Street Art Cities at the bottom as part of their sources and methodology taken on a specific date. I wonder how these metrics are weighted.
I find it very interesting that Melbourne has four times more artworks than Paris (five times for London), but both of these cities have an insane amount of both Instagram posts and article engagement. Well done to the team in Melbourne on representing the city all the way up to third place! There must be many cities out there still waiting to be hunted out there, with some of these top cities also waiting for their new artworks to be hunted!