Rock music is still the most popular music in America — just not among young people. While it is the clear favorite among Americans overall, adults under the age of 30 rank it third, behind hip hop and pop music. … Most people listen to music through digital streaming services, […] Read more »
Streaming Tops Radio as the Top Way to Listen to Music
As recently as 2017, radio was the most popular method for listening to music, but now just 31% of Americans usually listen to music through the radio – either over the airwaves or via satellite. Instead, the most common way to listen to music today is through a format that […] Read more »
Is Country Music More Unifying than Dividing?
… To measure tribalism, we used the most salient tribes in contemporary American society: Democrats and Republicans. We conducted a survey asking Americans if they felt favorable or unfavorable towards various genres of music and artists. Compared to truly divisive topics like Black Lives Matter (52 percentage point difference) or […] Read more »
How Different Communities Prefer to Spend Leisure Time
Summertime is almost here and as Americans look forward to the beach trips and vacations of the next few months, the American Communities Project finds there are different items on the leisure agenda in different locales. Yet if there is a great warm-weather equalizer in the nation it may be […] Read more »
The Songs That Bind
My younger brother, Noah, and I were recently arguing, again, about music. The subject of our current impasse was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” — the song, not the album. (I love it. He hates it.) I was beginning to get frustrated by how much of our lives are spent […] Read more »
Americans More Positive About Effects of Immigration
Americans are more positive now than a decade ago about the effects that immigration has on the U.S. This increase in positivity is seen across six different aspects of life in the U.S., spanning the economy, culture and jobs situation. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »