Research Report : The Syncopate Team

In conclusion, the music preferences of consumers can affect and influence their behavior to a certain extent. Under consumers’ subculture of music consumption, their behaviors can be influenced by internal factors such as self-concept, self-representation, and self-expression, as well as external factors such as friends, musicians, celebrities and social media as an influence.

Ask anyone how they listen to music the answer will likely be through any means of easy access at an affordable cost. A study conducted by news outlet Nielsen 's Music 360 claimed, “Americans streamed 164 billion on-demand tracks across audio and video platforms in 2014”. The rapid increase in popularity music streaming platforms are experiencing leaves people wondering what that means for the music industry. When more consumers utilize the on-demand method of entertainment access, how does that translate to the artist being accessed? Astra Taylor contributes to this discussion in her book, “The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”. She lays criticism upon the idea of a more digitized

Music can be observed as one of the oldest pieces of art and entertainment. The industry is evolving at a hasty rate, with all thanks to the exponential growth of technology. Trends have come and gone over time since media productions are compelled to accompany these changes in technology in order to keep profit. With these advancements, the experience for the music industry and the user has terrifically changed. In this essay, I argue that there has been a drastic evolution in how the way music is recorded and consumed over several centuries. Throughout this period, several pioneers have met the needs to organize craze and association of a feasible business standard for the future of the music industry.

The purpose of this memo is to better understand how the cloud has changed the music industry for both artists and users. This is an evaluation of 5 of the most popular cloud-based music streaming applications. These applications allow people to have access to more music than ever before, wherever they are. Each app has different features that may make them appealing to different people, so it is important to evaluate them to see strengths and weaknesses.

BACILOS’ TARGET FANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO LISTEN TO MUSIC THROUGH AM/FM RADIO, VIDEO STREAMING, & FREE ONLINE RADIO

As is observed there is present statistics on this two different music sites and their comparability.

The purpose of this research is to explain the structures behind musical preference. Research suggests that preferences for the music factors are affected by the social and auditory characteristics of the music. The research informs readers about the nature of music preferences. It broadens our understanding of the factors that shape the music preferences. In study 1, advertisements were placed in several locations on the internet inviting people to participate in an internet-based study of personality, attitudes, and preferences. “Participation involved completing multiple surveys on separate occasions, one of which included the musical preference measure. After completing each survey, they were told that they would receive an email message within a few days with a hyperlink that would direct them to the next survey. The first step was to identify broad musical styles that appeal to most people. 5,000 participants and 600 University students filled out an open-ended questionnaire to name their favorite music genres and examples of music for each one. From this, they identified 23 genres and subgenres that occurred on lists most often.” (Rentfrow, 2011). They added 3 more for the sake of completeness. The next step was obtaining musical exemplars for the 26 music subgenres. They consulted 10 professionals(musicologists and recording industry veterans) to identify representative or

Authors Schneider and Flanagan, state approximate a year ago, Apple took step number 1, jumping into the streaming services market for the first time, by purchasing Beasts for three billion dollars. Beast, a hibernating streaming service at the time, is co-founded by record producers Dr, Dre and Jimmy Lovine; the two of them joined Apple in executive roles said the authors. Streaming music is moving away from algorithms, where the music being generated by computer to the more modern version called human curation said Schneider and Flanagan. Human curation for example, when one knows music very well, such as an artist therefore, he or she can make better recommendations or advice selecting from a playlist compared to a search engine.

Pandora was started in 2005 as an online music streaming service which was a result of The Music Genome Project (Pandora,2015). Will Glaser, Jon Kraft and Tim Westergren had thought of creating a music radio service that played music specific to a user (Pandora,2015). Glaser and Westergren developed The Music Genome Project before trying to build a commercial model around it (Pandora,2015). Due to the research on the project, a new application was born, with a mission statement, “To play only music you’ll love” (Pandora,2015).

We’re far from done and you can contribute too! Converge Records offers the ability to catalog your music collection. Now you could already save into your playlist any song you want to continuously listen to it anytime you want. You could also share your ratings, and reviews at the end of any song.

Music has always acted as an effective vehicle to enhance people’s lives and connect people together. Ever since the advent of the Internet, news and pop culture has been able to easily reach millions of people not only in the United States, but across the world. Music has become an even more effective medium over the past decade through the use of websites and programs that allow people to listen to music and view media online. To this day, music represents one of the major avenues of pop culture and media that people consume on the Internet daily. Social media websites like Facebook and YouTube have over a billion users (Protalinski; “Statistics”). Media that gets posted to websites like these have the potential to be viewed by some of the largest and varied audiences in the world. Artists have the ability to release music videos and promotional material online, which contributes significantly to the amount of units they sell. In 2015, many artists were able to sell millions of units and

This article restates the American Recording Industry’s report that music streaming services are their primary source of income. CD, digital download, and vinyl sales have decreased dramatically over the last decade. Furthermore, this article discusses the pros and cons of popular streaming services such as Apple Music, Pandora, Prime Music, Slacker, Spotify, and Tidal. When the article compared the six services, the author focused on the costs, uses, benefits, and drawbacks.

The end of the 20th century introduced two new concepts that would be some of the most defining revolutions of the early 21st century: digital music and Web 2.0. The vast increase in websites emphasizing user-generated content and interoperability rapidly created an era of collaborative tagging, and the nearly simultaneous eruption of the mp3 music file format assured that music

Anderson’s observations are very apparent in any industry where there are choices and a bestseller’s list. For retailers, the number one goal is to make a profit and because sales are driven by preferences and tastes, it is paramount to accommodate for the general public. As a result, the choices for movies or the recommended songs are pigeon holed for the general person. That is not to say that what is popular is not worth buying, but it seems that every radio station still wants to play the same songs as the next station. I think some people like the repetition of certain popular, feel-good songs but after a while, it becomes nauseating to flip through stations.

The ways people access music are important aspects of musical culture. Today, music lovers are choosing to stream their music instead of actually owning their own personal copy. Streaming music has become one of the biggest trends in today’s society. As for me personally, I like to be up to date on my music, so I usually will just stream music from one of my favorite free music service sites, such as; Spotify, LiveMixtapes.com, Pandora, and/or iHeart Radio. Spotify had been Europe’s top streaming music service since 2008 before finally being brought to the United States.