You stop listening to new music at age 33, earlier for parents, study finds

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You stop listening to new music at age 33, earlier for parents, study finds

Article posted by Dave Shumka in Pop
If you're worried about losing your love of new music, your fears are justified. That's according to new research that finds listeners reach "maturity" around age 33. In other words, you're done with discovering new music when you reach your mid-thirties.

The study compared multiple sets of data, including the age and gender of Spotify users, their parental status, and the overall popularity of artists. The study found that teenagers listen almost exclusively to the most popular artists, but their tastes evolve steeply into their mid-twenties, and then slowly until they level off in their mid-thirties.

According to the study, there are two reasons for this.

"First, listeners discover less-familiar music genres that they didn’t hear on FM radio as early teens, from artists with a lower popularity rank. Second, listeners are returning to the music that was popular when they were coming of age — but which has since phased out of popularity."

The research also found that men gravitate away from popular artists further and earlier than women, and that at any age, parents listen to less music by popular artists than their childless counterparts. Check out the entire study here.

But don't worry too much. According to other surveys, 33-year-olds are too busy and happy to care.

http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2015/4/...ts-study-finds

I'll admit, I'm 39 and I rarely go outside my musical comfort zone. I do go into spurts of finding something new here and there.