Music is six degrees. Measured.

Database Statistics:

497,120,657,286 pairs of musicians, each measured exactly: the most common distance between any two is six. The full census is The Width of the World.

Start at the loneliest edge of the graph — Vicente Mauri Soler — and watch one introduction reach the next. The wave crawls for a dozen steps through tiny rooms of two and three people, swallows 917,429 musicians in its four biggest steps after it breaks out, and spends its last steps reaching the newest, loneliest corners: 24 people stand at step 26.

The connected mainland holds 997,117 musicians — less than half of everyone with a recording credit on file. 1,031,951 musicians are complete solitaires, sharing their recordings with no other credited person, and the second-largest connected world in all of music holds 111 people. There is one mainland, and then there is everyone else.

Vicente Mauri Soler→Eugenia Zúffoli→José Palomera→Luis Bori→Luisa Wieden→Galleguito→Perlita Greco→Faustino Bretaño→Celia Gámez→Alfonso Godá→Gran Orquesta del Teatro Albéniz→Daniel Montorio→Orquesta sinfónica de Madrid→Plácido Domingo→Karl Perazzo→Nas→AWITW→Sergi Yaro→Xlos→Finn Studd→Matthew McDermott→Luke Wellik→Thomas Waddington→Ezra Beckett→Jack Brough→Zamm Kenoby→Steve Hillier

26 real sessions, Vicente Mauri Soler to Steve Hillier — the two worlds meet at Plácido Domingo. The whole story →