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Seven of Maxwell's ten nearest neighbors by audience shape are actors — not fellow musicians. The scores run from 0.99 to 1.00 across the full set, a band so compressed it signals a cohesive, well-defined audience rather than any single dominant pull.
The top 10 split into three subcategories: seven actors, two musicians, and one TV channel. The actors include Regina King (0.9959), Boris Kodjoe (0.9948), Sanaa Lathan (0.9944), Anthony Anderson (0.9944), Niecy Nash (0.9935), Tichina Arnold (0.9930), and Nia Long (0.9927). The two fellow musicians are Jill Scott at 0.9969 — the single highest score in the set — and Erykah Badoula at 0.9946. BET Her TV (0.9935) is the lone non-celebrity entity in the top 10. The actor-heavy composition is the defining structural feature: Maxwell's audience overlaps far more with the audiences of Black dramatic and comedic actors than with those of other musicians, with only two same-subcategory neighbors appearing in the top 10.
The flat shape and near-uniform scores across this mix point to an audience with a stable, consistent profile — one that tracks a specific cultural space rather than a broad or fragmented one.
