List of songs about cities


Cities are a major topic for popular songs.
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."
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. However, there are many exceptions, for example: Lady Antebellum's song ‘This City’, Danielle Bradbery's ‘Young in America’, and many others.
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.
The following is a list of songs about cities, from both traditional and pop music: the list should not be considered complete.

Albania

Tirana

Algiers

Yerevan

Buenos Aires

Baku

Adelaide

Mount Isa

Tamworth

Friedberg

Aalst

Sarajevo

Brasília

Salvador

Calgary

Saskatoon

Vancouver

Winnipeg

Santiago

Beijing

Kinshasa

Barranquilla

Pula

Guantánamo

Prague

Copenhagen

Holsterbro

San Pedro de Macorís

Guayaquil

Alexandria

Helsinki

Ajaccio

Pau

Berlin

Bochum

Hamm

Bissau

Athens

Hong Kong

Budapest

Reykjavík

Baghdad

Dublin

Cork

Israel

Jerusalem

India

Agra

Bologna

Abidjan

Kingston

Fukuoka

Yokohama

Mombassa

Riga

Beirut

Vaduz

Luxemburg

Acapulco

Bălți

Marrakesh

Kathmandu

Amsterdam

Delfzijl

Auckland

Managua

Lagos

Pyongyang

Oslo

Pakistan

Lahore

Lima

Manila

Poland

Bydgoszcz

Coimbra

San Juan

Bucharest

Moscow

Saint Petersburg

Gisenyi

Mbignona

Belgrade

Cape Town

Seoul

Almería

Bilbao

Stockholm

Gothenburg

Bern

Zanzibar

Dushanbe

Bangkok

Tunis

Ankara

Kiev

Abu Dhabi

Aberdeen

Bradford

London

Derry

Newcastle upon Tyne

Aberdeen, Maryland

Asbury Park, New Jersey

Bossier City, Louisiana

Brownsville, Texas

Cincinnati, Ohio

Doraville, Georgia

Louisville, Kentucky

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 . The ones listed below are some of the better-known songs:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

New Orleans, Louisiana

New York City, New York

Olema, California

Reno, Nevada

Sausalito, California

Simi Valley, California

Montevideo

Samarkand

Caracas

Hanoi