The evolution of the culture industry and technology in the same direction has also affected the commodification of music as a means of communication. Today, when artificial intelligence is put to work, the music industry markets the service of listening to music freely with digital music platforms that provide real-time data flow. With this technology, which allows people to listen to music wherever and whenever they want, music has become an easily accessible element of consumption in daily life. As a current reflection, it can be said that people's music listening habits have gained a different dimension. Spotify is the most popular music service in the world using this technology. In this context, Spotify, which has the most users in the world, contains important clues about the music cultures of societies. This research aims to evaluate the most listened Turkish songs in Turkey in 2022 in the context of music sociology. The content analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. According to the specific parameters, the top 5 most listened songs in 2022 were analyzed. The frequency and percentage of descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. According to the findings obtained from the research, it was concluded that the most listened-to song from the 2022 list is electro-pop (f= 132.812.414). It was determined that the other four songs were Turkish rap. Within the scope of the research, it has been tried to determine the current situation in terms of popular culture and music preference. Some determinations and evaluations about the Turkish rap genre, which is on the rise today, particularly thanks to the Z generation, are included.

In this research, it is aimed to investigate musical analysis of lullabies, which are the product of oral culture, in today's world, where living conditions change due to various economic and socio-cultural reasons and natural and traditional cultural transfer decreases. Content analysis technique from qualitative research methods was conducted of this descriptive study. Categorical analysis technique was used when examining the content of lullabies. The data sources of the research are 24 lullabies that were found to be sung in Kars and Ardahan province-wide. Within the scope of the content analysis technique, musical analysis of lullabies was carried out and elements related to the music culture of this region were indicated. The categories of lullabies determined to be of a makam's nature were determined by performing melodic analysis. Accordingly, the lowpitch, high-pitch, sound field, makam scale, decision-pitch, strongpitch, seventh-pitch, cruising and melodic expansion rates in lullabies; in usul (procedural) analysis; unit, time, level, duration values, metronome and procedural transitions are discussed. In the context of these categories, the identify information of the lullabies examined in terms of makam and usul has been established. Fruquency and percentage of descriptive criteria were used in the analysis of the data. The findings show that 21 of the lullabies were in kırıkhava and 3 of them were uzunhava type among the analysed 24 lullabies. The most common makam scale is Uşşak (50%) regarding to procedural use, this revealed that a lullaby was sung in a maximum of 4/4 usul (53,8%). Overall, the results showed that with careful analysing, the analysed lullabies analyzed were highly similar to Kars-Ardahan music culture with regard to their makam and usul characteristics.