MOP is colored this I know. I'm just wondering if it's MOP or a truth.
 
I don't want to start a war. I can't help my observations.
 
I have listened to a lot of music on several different music sites and looked at listen counts.
 
According to my colored views if the artist happens to be female the track gets more plays than if it's a male artist.
 
I think I have pretty good judgement and listening skills but I could be wrong. It even seem like sometimes there are more plays even if the track sounds worse.
 
If there is a nice looking female on the cover...scratch that..even a half decent looking female the track gets a higher count. Am I wrong...don't run me off.
 
I have also noticed that any kind of dance or techno music gets high listens. I mean like 5000-10,000 listens. Are there really that many people who love to hear synthesizers burp under midi control and pond out simple beats to the masses?  What am I missing here? Everything? Maybe just a little? 

You're missing a scantily clad tart female on the cover of your techno dance album...

I knew I was missing something.
 

Makes me wonder who's actually listening to that genre? Surely not just young males. Any idea what the demographic looks like?
 
Having a female up front is certainly nothing new. Back in the early 70's when I first came to Seattle, I was told that having a girl singer would guarantee steady work. They were right. We had not one, but two girls up front, with coordinated outfits and dance steps. It really did open doors for us - for a few months, anyway. Then one singers' boyfriend started fooling around with the other singer and they stopped talking to one another. Yes, he was a drummer. 

Sorry Tim I'm really tired this evening..what's 'MOP'?

 
 
Two words that the advertising business really understands and uses all the time.
 
 
Sex sells.
 
 
Men natually gravite to beautiful women. So of course those songs get more hits.
 
Susan Boyle (Spelling??) shocked people with her beautifil voice because everything else about her appearence didnt look as beautiful as her voice.
 
We're natuaral shallow like that. We always have been since .....FOREVER!
 
Anyway...
Carry on.
 
 

I guess I'm becoming a dinosaur Bit. Loosing touch I guess. I haven't done any detailed kind of a demographic, just my observations and data collecting on my own.
 
 As an example one artist I listened to and who has nice tracks. She has a nice voice and the recordings are well done. She is a nice looking girl but not model material . I have heard similar or better tracks than hers by male artists and they get nowhere near the plays. Could be other unknown factors involved and I used the starise rating system which may be flawed. Just a few days in she had  over 600 plays on one of her tracks. 600 plays is still small  compared to many others but I think I see a definite difference.
 
I think age group is another big factor. One of the larger upload sites seem to cater heavily toward DJ/Techno/ and EDM. The Deadmau stuff. Those songs have thousands and thousands of plays. Lots of DJs actually go many of these sites to rip material to use in their shows. Like everything else I think that big corporate money has made it's way into some of this. How else could a track that certainly seems like something that can be made by the average engineer in a few hours get 10,000 plays? I knew awhile back that dance music was pretty big in Europe. It must be bigger now than ever. I don't notice that same trend here in the states to that extent. Maybe the clubs in NY and several other large cities are going big with EDM music but I certainly don't see that happening around where I live. 

jamesg1213
Sorry Tim I'm really tired this evening..what's 'MOP'?

That's a thing you clean the floor with....don't hit me ..... MOP = My Opinion OP=Opinion 

Mooch I agree sex sells. But I think it also seems to be a "sex Lite" thing sometimes. Maybe more like femininity sells.
 
I have been around  enough  to know that when a woman shows up she gets a lot of attention when there are more men than women. Same goes for a woman entering a physical room. I think it's almost an instinctual thing for men to cater to the opposite sex. Heck I'll be the first to admit that I like women too. They are sure a lot more interesting to look at than men are. They add a lot to life.Life wouldn't be nearly as fun or interesting without them around...I think that this sometimes translates well into marketing if men are buying the product.
 
 
 

As for Trance, I've got over 250 GB of it and love it!  I can REALLY get into programming while listening to that repetitious beat.  YMMV.