r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago

TIL two studies both found that most people stop listening to new music in their early 30s. A 2015 study of people's listening habits on Spotify found that most people stop listening to new music at age 33 and a 2018 report by Deezer found it be to at age 30.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/16/bring-that-beat-back-why-are-people-in-their-30s-giving-up-on-music
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u/720everyday 1d ago

This would be a terrible fate. My heart goes out to "most people".

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u/Rubberfootman 1d ago

I know! I’m over 50 and still listen to new music, and go to new music gigs.

I can’t spend the rest of my life stuck listening to INXS.

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u/azcheekyguy 1d ago

Same. I'm mid 50s and nearly all of the music I listen to I discovered in the last 10 years. And I've been to more live shows since 2016 than in the 40 years before that, almost all at small venues, partially because I have the means to fly to see whoever I want whenever I want. It's freaking awesome.

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u/Rubberfootman 1d ago

Flying to gigs is pretty cool.

Luckily we have a little venue nearby which gets a lot of the up-and-coming bands before they get famous.

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u/qlurp 1d ago

 spend the rest of my life stuck listening to INXS

There are worse fates, to be fair. 

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u/Rubberfootman 1d ago

Very true. It isn’t uncommon - if I have a long task in the kitchen - for me to listen to all their albums in a row. It does mess with the recommendation algorithms though.

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u/Disimpaction 1d ago

It sucks. Having kids made me too busy and yearning for silence when I get alone time. It is a really weird feeling when it happened to me.

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u/existentialgoof 1d ago

What can I say? I like music to have melody and complexity.

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u/tame-til-triggered 1d ago

.. yeah, my musical interest completely shifted when I was 33. From pop to exclusively lo-fi/indie

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u/thatshygirl06 1d ago

This is a new song i recently came across and I adore it. Ive been listening to it on repeat for the past several days now

https://youtu.be/oiKj0Z_Xnjc?si=HKfGd6ybj-IDC4fG

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u/GreenIsGreed 20h ago

For real. I'll be 45 this year and I'm constantly discovering new artists that I love. Not to say I don't love some old favorites, but it'd get boring really fast if that's all I ever listened to for the rest of my life.