Actors and comedians make up seven of Anita Baker's ten nearest neighbors by audience shape — a cross-kind majority for a musician. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 1.0 indicates near-identical audience profiles.

The top 10 form a flat band running from 0.99 to 0.9954, with no single neighbor pulling away from the rest. Patti LaBelle leads at 0.9954, followed immediately by actor Tichina Arnold at 0.9937 and musician Jill Scott at 0.9929 — the same score as actor Boris Kodjoe. Musician Maxwell sits at 0.9921, rounding out the three fellow Musicians and Bands in the top 10. The remaining five positions belong to comedians — DL Hughley (0.9915), Sheryl Underwood (0.9912), and DeRay Davis (0.9909) — and actors Regina King (0.9901) and Anthony Anderson (0.9900). The subcategory split — four actors, three comedians, three musicians — signals that this audience's shape is defined less by genre affinity than by a broader entertainment cluster that cuts evenly across performing arts categories.

The flat distribution across subcategories suggests an audience with wide, consistent engagement across Black entertainment rather than one anchored tightly to any single performer type.