Behavior and music: has what we listen to changed with the pandemic?
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 7:07 am
Are you the kind of person who breathes and sweats music? Then you must have noticed that, with the arrival of COVID-19, some things are different in this universe.
We have been dealing with the pandemic for almost 9 months and, as a result, we have undergone changes that we never imagined with the need for isolation. Our daily lives are gradually adapting to the so-called “new normal”, but regardless of what people are trying to do safely, our routine is different and so is our way of consuming music.
Listening to more music at home than on the street.
Music and video streaming apps have been paying attention to user behavior and its variations since the beginning of the pandemic. According to Deezer, there has been a drastic change between outdoor and home use, which is understandable, after all, most of the time everyone was at home, either on break or working from home. The schedule has changed with this change.
There was no longer a large volume of people traveling between home and work in traffic. The peak use of music services, which used to be in the morning until 7am, started to be a little later, from 10am onwards.
On weekends, while people used to listen to music vietnam viral telegram more at night, they started listening more in the afternoon, probably to stave off boredom. In fact, streaming was used more on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, which symbolizes the anticipation of getting together with friends and family. With quarantine and social distancing, the other days, from Monday to Thursday, became the same.
The means of enjoying music also showed a difference. While before the mobile phone was the companion, there was an increase in the use of household devices such as smart TVs and gadgets like the Alexa bot . In Brazil alone, this increase was 102% (60% worldwide).
Our playlists have a new look
According to a survey by Spotify Brazil, the number of playlists has also increased. The comparison was made taking into account playlists produced before and after the pandemic lockdown. With more time spent at home, users naturally sought to listen to music in ways that would better fill that time.
A really cool strategy from Spotify was to create the “My Top Lockdown Songs” ranking, in which the algorithm itself gathers the songs you liked the most during isolation.
It is important to note that halfway through the year, there was a certain “shock” in relation to the musical genres listened to. The survey carried out by DataFolha shows a very frustrated population that wants its freedom back. Spotify’s top 200, collected in 34 countries, reveals that in Brazil the variation in sadness reflected in songs was very large, more so than at the beginning of the pandemic. This may explain a certain frustration during such a long period of uncertainty.
In other countries, the feeling of sadness was accompanied by some hope and connection with the past. People began to seek out songs with positive messages that symbolized unity. The flow of songs like “We are the world” doubled in Italy, Spain and the United States.
We have been dealing with the pandemic for almost 9 months and, as a result, we have undergone changes that we never imagined with the need for isolation. Our daily lives are gradually adapting to the so-called “new normal”, but regardless of what people are trying to do safely, our routine is different and so is our way of consuming music.
Listening to more music at home than on the street.
Music and video streaming apps have been paying attention to user behavior and its variations since the beginning of the pandemic. According to Deezer, there has been a drastic change between outdoor and home use, which is understandable, after all, most of the time everyone was at home, either on break or working from home. The schedule has changed with this change.
There was no longer a large volume of people traveling between home and work in traffic. The peak use of music services, which used to be in the morning until 7am, started to be a little later, from 10am onwards.
On weekends, while people used to listen to music vietnam viral telegram more at night, they started listening more in the afternoon, probably to stave off boredom. In fact, streaming was used more on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, which symbolizes the anticipation of getting together with friends and family. With quarantine and social distancing, the other days, from Monday to Thursday, became the same.
The means of enjoying music also showed a difference. While before the mobile phone was the companion, there was an increase in the use of household devices such as smart TVs and gadgets like the Alexa bot . In Brazil alone, this increase was 102% (60% worldwide).
Our playlists have a new look
According to a survey by Spotify Brazil, the number of playlists has also increased. The comparison was made taking into account playlists produced before and after the pandemic lockdown. With more time spent at home, users naturally sought to listen to music in ways that would better fill that time.
A really cool strategy from Spotify was to create the “My Top Lockdown Songs” ranking, in which the algorithm itself gathers the songs you liked the most during isolation.
It is important to note that halfway through the year, there was a certain “shock” in relation to the musical genres listened to. The survey carried out by DataFolha shows a very frustrated population that wants its freedom back. Spotify’s top 200, collected in 34 countries, reveals that in Brazil the variation in sadness reflected in songs was very large, more so than at the beginning of the pandemic. This may explain a certain frustration during such a long period of uncertainty.
In other countries, the feeling of sadness was accompanied by some hope and connection with the past. People began to seek out songs with positive messages that symbolized unity. The flow of songs like “We are the world” doubled in Italy, Spain and the United States.