List of songs about cities

Cities are a major topic for popular songs.[1][2] Music journalist and author Nick Coleman has gone as far as to say that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else."[1]

Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation. In many cases, songs celebrate individual cities, presenting them as exciting and liberating. Not all genres share the tendency to be positive about cities; in Country music cities are often portrayed as unfriendly and dehumanizing, or seductive but full of sin.[1][2]

Lyricist and author Sheila Davis writes that including a city in a song's title helps focus the song on the concrete and specific, which is both more appealing and more likely to lead to universal truth than abstract generalizations. Davis also says that songs with titles concerning cities and other specific places often have enduring popularity.[3]

The following is a list of songs about cities, from both traditional and pop music: the list should not be considered complete.

Algeria

Algiers

Oran

Tizi Ouzou

Armenia

Yerevan

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Rosario

Córdoba

Azerbaijan

Baku

Australia

Adelaide

Alice Springs

Ballarat

Bathurst

Brisbane

Broken Hill

Canberra

Coffs Harbour

Darwin

Gladstone

Gold Coast

Hobart

Kalgoorlie

Melbourne

Mount Isa

Newcastle

Perth

Port Lincoln

Queanbeyan

Sydney

Austria

Salzburg

Wien (Vienna)

Belgium

Aalst

Antwerpen (Antwerp)

Bruges/Brugge

Bruxelles/Brussel (Brussels)

Knokke

Liège

Ostende

Waterloo

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Brazil

Fortaleza

Porto Alegre

Recife

Rio de Janeiro

Salvador

São Paulo

Canada

Calgary

Gaspe, QC

Halifax

Montreal

Saskatoon

Toronto

Vancouver

Winnipeg

Chile

Santiago

Valparaiso

China

Beijing

Shanghai

Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Kinshasa

Colombia

Barranquilla

Bogotá

Buenaventura

Cali

Medellin

Croatia

Rijeka

Sinj

Split

Vukovar

Cuba

Guantánamo

Havana

Santiago de Cuba

Czech Republic

Prague

Denmark

Copenhagen

Dominican Republic

San Pedro de Macorís

Ecuador

Guayaquil

Egypt

Alexandria

Cairo

Finland

Helsinki

France

Ajaccio

Amiens

Angers

Annecy

Avignon

Biarritz

Bordeaux

Brest

Caen

Cherbourg-Octeville

Clermont-Ferrand

Dijon

La Rochelle

Le Havre

Lyon

Marseille

Montpellier

Nancy

Nantes

Nice

Orléans

Paris

Pau

Reims

Rouen

Saint-Etienne

St. Tropez

Strasbourg

Toulouse

Vesoul

Germany

Berlin

Bochum

Delmenhorst

Dresden

Düsseldorf

Frankfurt (Oder)

Hamburg

Hamm

Hannover

Kassel

Köln

Krefeld

Mannheim

Marienbad

München

Oberhausen

Rostock

Stuttgart

Guinea-Bissau

Bissau

Greece

Athens

Piraeus

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hungary

Budapest

Iceland

Reykjavík

Ireland

Dublin

Cork

Israel

Jerusalem

India

Amritsar

Calcutta

Chandigarh

Delhi

Jaipur

Jalandhar

Mumbai

Varanasi

Italy

Bologna

Genoa

Milan

Naples

Pompeii

Rimini

Rome

Turin

Venice

Verona

Ivory Coast

Abidjan

Jamaica

Kingston

Japan

Fukuoka

Hiroshima

Kyoto

Nagasaki

Tokyo

Yokohama

Kenya

Mombassa

Latvia

Riga

Lebanon

Beirut

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Mali

Mexico

Acapulco

Atotonilco

Culiacan

Guadalajara

Juarez

Mexico City

Sinaloa

Tampico

Tijuana

Veracruz

Moldova

Bălți

Morocco

Marrakesh

Casablanca

Tanger

Agadir

Nepal

Kathmandu

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Delfzijl

Den Haag (The Hague)

Eindhoven

Nijmegen

Rotterdam

Utrecht

Zwolle

New Zealand

Auckland

Hastings

Wellington

Nicaragua

Managua

Nigeria

Lagos

Norway

Oslo

Pakistan

Lahore

Panama

Philippines

Manila

Peru

Lima

Poland

Bydgoszcz

Cracow

Gdańsk

Gdynia

Łódź

Piła

Poznań

Sopot

Szczecin

Ustrzyki Dolne

Warsaw

Wrocław

Portugal

Coimbra

Lisbon

Peniche

Porto

Puerto Rico

San Juan

Republic of Iraq

Baghdad

Romania

Bucharest

Timișoara

Medgidia

Russia

Moscow

Saint Petersburg

Sevastopol

Leningrad

Rwanda

Gisenyi

Kigali

Scotland

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Serbia

Belgrade

South Africa

Cape Town

Durban

Johannesburg

Margate

Port Elizabeth

Pretoria

Soweto

South Korea

Seoul

Busan

Spain

Almería

Barcelona

Bilbao

Cadiz (Cádiz)

Cordova (Córdoba)

Granada

Huelva

Ibiza

Malaga (Málaga)

Madrid

Murcia

Salamanca

San Fernando, Cádiz

San Sebastián/Donostia

Santiago de Compostela

Seville

Soria

Toledo

Torremolinos

Valencia

Valladolid

Senegal

Mbignona

Sweden

Stockholm

Gothenburg

Switzerland

Bern

Wallisellen

Tanzanie

Zanzibar

Tajikistan

Dushanbe

Thailand

Bangkok

Chiang Mai

Tunisia

Tunis

Turkey

Ankara

Bodrum

Istanbul

Izmir

Ukraine

Kiev

Odessa

United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi

United Kingdom

Belfast

Birmingham

Brighton

Liverpool

London

Manchester

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newport

Salford

Southampton

Wakefield

United States

Abilene

Akron

Albuquerque

Allentown

Amarillo

Anchorage

Atlanta

Arlington, Virginia

Asbury Park, New Jersey

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Austin

Avalon (Catalina Isl.), California

Baltimore

Bangor, Maine

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Beaumont, Texas

Birmingham

Bossier City

Boston

Brownsville, TX

Buffalo, NY

Charleston, SC

Chattanooga

Chicago

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Coeur d'Alene, ID

Commerce City, CO

Danville

Dallas

Denver

Detroit

Doraville

El Paso

Flagstaff

Fort Worth

Galveston

Garden Grove

Gary

Greensboro, NC

Hackensack, NJ

Honolulu

Houston

Indianapolis

Jackson, MS

Jacksonville, FL

Juneau

Kalamazoo, MI

Kansas City

Kent, OH

Knoxville, TN

La Grange, TX

Laredo

Las Vegas

Laurel, MS

Lincoln, Nebraska

Little Rock

Los Angeles

Louisville

Lubbock, TX

Luckenbach, TX

Malibu, CA

Manti, UT

Mayberry, NC

Marina del Rey

Memphis

Memphis holds the distinction of being the most mentioned city in the world when it comes to commercially recorded songs. As of July 2013, this list has made it up to 1074 songs and counting. The list is maintained at the Memphis Rock and Soul Museum website. The ones listed below are some of the more well known songs:

Miami

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

Mobile

Montgomery

Muncie, IN

Muskogee, OK

Myrtle Beach, SC

Nashville

New Orleans

New York City

Olema, CA

Olympia

Omaha

Palestine, TX

Panama City, FL

Philadelphia

Phoenix

Pittsburgh

Portland, ME

Portland, OR

Reno

Richmond, VA

Sacramento, CA

Saginaw, MI

Saint Louis, MO

Salt Lake City, UT

San Angelo, TX

San Antonio

San Diego

San Jose

Santa Fe

San Francisco

Sausalito, CA

Savannah

Seattle

Simi Valley

Sioux City, IA

St. Paul

Tacoma, WA

Tallahassee

Telluride, CO

Thibodaux, LA

Topeka, KS

Tucson

Tucumcari, NM

Tulsa

Washington, D.C.

Wichita

Wildwood, NJ

Winslow, AZ

Youngstown, OH

Uruguay

Montevideo

Venezuela

Caracas

Cumana

Vietnam

Saigon

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