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Are you stuck in the past, musically speaking? Blogger Ajay Kalia studied listener data from Spotify and rankings of the most popular music artists and found that people—especially males—tend to “age out” of mainstream music in their early to mid 30s because they stop liking or discovering new music.

Kalia found that popular music dominates the musical tastes of teens but that the proportion of proportion drops steadily through their 20s. The blogger also found that, while men and women have similar listening habits in their teens, mainstream music listening decreases much faster for men than for women and that as soon as children enter into the picture popular music listening drops off regardless of age.

See the full study available here.

Additional analysis on the study can be found here.

Do these findings this reflect your musical experience?