Virus Shook the Streaming Star: Estimating the COVID-19 Impact on Music Consumption

Sim, Jaeung; Cho, Daegon; Hwang, Youngdeok; Telang, Rahul

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“…Music consumption in these cases correlates strongly with background use of music (Chamorro-Premuzic et al, 2012) and in most cases it occurs outside the home. These results are consistent with the aforementioned study of Sim et al (2020), who analyze the decrease in digital consumption of music during the pandemic. However, when the consumption of music occurs in public environments or as background music (Chamorro-Premuzic and Furnham, 2007) people are less engaged with the music and have less intentional control over what they are listening to.…”

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“…COVID-19 has greatly impacted musical activities and, in many cases, has driven a decline of certain forms of musical consumption, first because the majority of concerts and cultural events have been cancelled during the pandemic (Agarwal and Sunitha, 2020), second due to the decrease of music in public spaces (Botstein, 2019), and third as a result of the decline in digital consumption of music (Sim et al, 2020), in many cases linked to people's mobility and transit time or the time spent on retail and recreation, in parks, transit stations, and in workplaces.…”

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Uses and Perceptions of Music in Times of COVID-19: A Spanish Population Survey

2021

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Since March 14, 2020, Spanish citizens have been confined to their homes due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participating in musical activities has been associated with reduced anxiety and increased subjective wellbeing. The aim of this study is to analyze how Spanish citizens used music during the lockdown period. We also study perceptions of the impact music has in everyday life, in particular examining the respondents’ insights into the effects of listening to music in situations of isolation. The study was conducted using the MUSIVID19 questionnaire administered to a total of 1868 Spanish citizens. The results indicate that during lockdown, respondents perceived an increase in the time they devoted to musical activities such as listening, singing, dancing or playing an instrument. The participants also reported using music to cope with the lockdown, finding that it helped them to relax, escape, raise their mood or keep them company. The findings suggest an improvement in their perception of the value of music in personal and social wellbeing during the lockdown. However, the study reveals significant differences in the use and perceptions of music according to respondents’ personal situations. Age and feelings of vulnerability may lead to more conservative uses of musical practice and to more moderate perceptions of the positive values of music.

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Uses and Perceptions of Music in Times of COVID-19: A Spanish Population Survey

2021

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“…Spotify seems to have been a useful tool for regaining normal levels of sharing music with others. This is similar to the study by Sim et al (2020) , which documented a return to normal levels of streaming as countries reopened.…”

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“…To assess the effect of the pandemic on streaming service usage, Sim et al (2020) analyzed Spotify’s weekly top 200 songs for 2 years in 60 countries. They estimate that music streaming initially decreased 12.5% at the onset of the pandemic, contrary to the expectation that changes, such as working at home, would increase streaming service usage.…”

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Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hurwitz

Krumhansl

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The term “listening niche” refers to the contexts in which people listen to music including what music they are listening to, with whom, when, where, and with what media. The first experiment investigates undergraduate students’ music listening niches in the initial COVID-19 lockdown period, 4 weeks immediately after the campus shut down abruptly. The second experiment explores how returning to a hybrid semester, the “new normal,” further affected these listening habits. In both experiments, the participants provided a list of their most frequently listened-to songs during the respective period of time. From these, they identified one song that seemed most associated with this period, their “signature song,” and stated why this song seemed relevant. These reasons were coded on nine underlying themes. Three clusters were found to underlie the themes: (1) emotional responses (2) memory associations, and (3) discovery of new music. We identified songs and reasons for selecting them that represented the three clusters and related these to the lyrical content. Compared to before the pandemic, participants in both experiments report listening more in general and on Spotify, but there were no differences in listening between lockdown and the new normal. Whom they were listening with shifted overtime from family members to significant others and finally to other friends and roommates. These results demonstrate how students listen to and find new music that is meaningful to them during this unprecedented pandemic.

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“…The video-based subset was subsequently extended with retrospectively sampled YouTube videos to ensure a substantial daily representation for the first two lockdown months. While audio-only content (e.g., SoundCloud) was permitted, we focused on videos because music consumption partly migrated from audio-to video-based platforms during COVID-19 lockdown (Sim et al, 2020;Carlson et al, 2021). During recent years, music videos have been the top-ranking content genre on YouTube (Liikanen & Salovaara, 2015), which is optimized for user content creation and has become the most popular music streaming service in some countries (Sohn, 2018).…”

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A crowd-sourced database of coronamusic: documenting online making and sharing of music during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hansen¹,

Treider²,

Swarbrick³

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When a sweeping COVID-19 pandemic forced cultural venues, schools, and social hangouts into hibernation in early 2020, music life relocated to the digital world. On social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok, sofas and balconies took center stage for musical performances presented as live-streamed concerts and recorded videos. Amateurs and professional musicians alike embraced digital formats and innovated novel genres of corona-themed music. We will refer to the products of this musical phenomenon collectively as "coronamusic." Adapting a well-known term from cultural musicology (Small, 1999), the diverse practices of listening, playing, dancing, composing, rehearsing, improvising, discussing, exploring, and innovating within this domain will be characterized as "corona-musicking." This study aims to establish the CORONAMUSIC DATABASE–a crowdsourced corpus of links to coronamusic videos and news media reports (https://osf.io/y7z28/). This constitutes the first readily accessible and searchable resource for researchers from all disciplines with an interest in documenting and investigating the musical dynamics underlying the pandemic.

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Virus Shook the Streaming Star: Estimating the COVID-19 Impact on Music Consumption

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Uses and Perceptions of Music in Times of COVID-19: A Spanish Population Survey

Uses and Perceptions of Music in Times of COVID-19: A Spanish Population Survey

Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

A crowd-sourced database of coronamusic: documenting online making and sharing of music during the COVID-19 pandemic

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