Consider your music the way listeners do ..

[Peggy]

What do you think influences listener's decision when choosing the music they listen to?  And  .. the music they purchase!!!

I'm always interested in how artists maneuver through the music industry with their releases. 

 

A few factors I can think of are:

- Moods

- Seasons and special days (holidays, weddings etc.)
- Daily Activities (working out, relaxing, studying, driving etc.)
- Pop Culture

- Genre

- Visual
- Age

- Fan

 

Can you think of others?  

 

What listener influences do you consider when releasing your music?   What methods do you use to reach listeners and those that are new to your music?  

 

[john]

Events

Their purpose (to lift or lower mood, to enthuse, to calm, to arouse, to get excited etc)

To remember (a person, a place, a time etc)

To regulate (tempo, such as marches, for exercise repetitions)

To expand drama

To add humour

to help sleep

to waken you up

 

I’ll leave some for others!

[Peggy]

21 hours ago, john said:

Events

Their purpose (to lift or lower mood, to enthuse, to calm, to arouse, to get excited etc)

To remember (a person, a place, a time etc)

To regulate (tempo, such as marches, for exercise repetitions)

To expand drama

To add humour

to help sleep

to waken you up

 

Thanks!  Those are some good thing to add in describing what  influences a Listener . 

 

1. Moods - The purpose (to lift or lower mood, to enthuse, to humor,  to add drama, to calm, to arouse, to get excited etc.)

2. Seasons and special days (holidays, weddings etc.)

   - To remember (a person, a place, a time etc.)

   - To  evocate emotional response to environmental influences (time of year, weather, common celebration periods, etc.) 
3. Daily Activities (working out, relaxing, wake up and sleeping, studying, driving etc.)

   - To regulate (tempo, such as marches, for exercise repetitions)