New survey on how people consume music and audio
An American research company called Edison has just released a new survey on how Americans listen to music. How does this compare with your experience? Here’s a nifty graphic.
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Why does it take so many people to write a song these days?
Back in the day, we had powerful songwriting teams like Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Tyler and Perry, all four members of U2. Songwriting was contained within the confines
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A fascinating study: Have song lyrics change since the 1960s?
Yes. Yes, they have. A site called Stat Significant just published a study on the evolution of song lyrics over the decades–well, centuries and millennia, actually. The researchers looked for
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Ongoing History Daily: Looking for a faithful partner? Pay attention to their taste in music.
There’s a website called Victoria Milan which seeks to connect attached people with those wishing to have affairs. They recently released a study of 6,500 people about their taste in
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A Canadian rock band made this 10 ten list of the “most arousing songs”
Listen to music to get into the mood? A digital PR company wanted to find out, so they went through 750 songs (sounds like a small sample, but whatever) and
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What are musicians’ favourite dog breeds?
The site Bored Panda (always fun for weird stuff and strange memes) manually curated media reports of 2,303 celebrities and their 3,305 canine companions to create this list of the
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Are metalheads bad drivers? Let’s look at the survey.
There’s another survey (actually, it’s an ad posing as a study) that looks at music and driving behaviors. Metalheads will want to look at this. One thousand American drivers were
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1024: Survey Says! Useful and Odd Music Surveys and Polls
Call me nosy, but I love knowing what other people think about things. This is why I gravitate towards surveys, the kind of stories where ordinary people are asked for
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Random music news for Monday, September 23, 2024
Ever wonder what a black hole sounds like? This. And the loudest sound in history was probably about 310 db. Here’s what music news for September 23, 2024, looks like.
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Random music news for Thursday, September 19, 2024
Here’s why Elon Musk is a national security risk to the United States. Here’s why. And here’s music news for September 19, 2024. More music news? Check here. BONUS: The
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Can the type of car you drive influence your musical taste? Apparently.
Here’s another survey that’s masquerades as an ad for something. In this case, it’s a look at how various brands of cars can affect the music we play while driving.
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