Sex - This is important as women and male both want different needs. Stereotypically women would prefer romance, fun and general happiness whereas the male stereotype is being drunk and dancing with ladies barely clothed. The helps us define the demographic as we can appeal to our target audience.
Age - The different generations make it hard for people to be in the same demographic as the younger generation are new and up to date and the older generation may still be interested in what they were brought up too. This means the older generation have no interest at all in electro or drum and bass and are more into 60’s/70’s/080’s and 90’s music and the young generation are influenced by the charts and most played music.
Social Status – The social status has an impact on music genres as the higher class would prefer to listen to calm, mellow music so stereotypically they would rather listen to classical music as they can afford to buy music and have the status of being able to listen to that type of music. However the lower class would be generally happy with whatever music is played on radio’s, music channels etc.
Marital Status – This has a vast impact as if you’re married or in a relationship you will prefer the happy and positive ‘love’ songs as the lyrics could relate the type of niche market whereas if you are single you’re more likely to listen to all types of loves song but mainly the type of love song where the lyrics relate to ‘finding love’. Additionally if you’re single and had a breakup then the ‘broken heart love songs’ are popular for people in that issue for both men and women.
Occupation and Industry – If you’re in a well-paid occupation stereotypically you will not listen to a many types of genres as they would rather listen to care and relaxing music. Whereas most people with a part time job or still very young would want to be up to date with the music in the charts and from their personality that type of genre.
Children – Children will want to hear cheerful and quite upbeat songs with light lyrics and the demographic is straight forward as they will not listen to any violent, sexual or bad influenced songs.
Income – People with higher paid jobs have the domestic cash to spare and are able to buy music they would be able to afford albums and have all of the artists songs whereas the less paid may buy just the single released to save them money. Therefore is an important demographic as the pricing needs to be spot on and use different methods of pricing
Household Tensure – This is a vital demographic because the disposable income left after all bills have been paid as most people with full time jobs have debts to pay before they think about buying music. Also many people may have children and have to put their needs before using their income to buy music.
Education – Education is a huge influence on school pupils as the people you socialise with has an effect on what genre of music you like.
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