Wednesday 22 May 2013

New music poll

I did a poll on the Talkawhile message board recently about how people discover new music. Gone are the days of being dependent on radio and TV or hearing new sounds at a friend's house or a music festival. There is now a huge amount of music, both old and new, to be listened to on the internet which you can access on your computer, iPad, smartphone or whatever. This list isn't meant to be complete but I think it gave enough options to make the survey worth doing. It is worth pointing out that as Talkawhile is centred around Fairport Convention, the average age of people responding is probably around 50. If you did the same poll among fans of Mumford and Sons I'm sure the results would be quite different.

Question: How do you discover new music?

Word of Mouth                 - 19.3%
Gigs\Festivals                - 18.6%
BBC National\Regional Radio   -  9.9%
Social Networks (FB, Twitter) -  9.3%
Music magazines\papers        -  6.2%
YouTube                       -  5.6%
Internet Radio\Mixcloud       -  5%
Spotify\Deezer\Rhapsody       -  5%
TV (Later w/ Jools etc)       -  3.7%
Buy cds                       -  3.7%
Artists' web sites            -  3.1%
Promo cds                     -  2.5%
Podcasts                      -  2.5%
Other (please specify)        -  1.9%
Record\Music Shops            -  1.9%
Local\Community FM Radio      -  1.2%
Bandcamp\Reverbnation         -  0.6%
iTunes                        -  0%


Approx 150 people took part with each person having 3 votes.

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