Are you the target audience for the preferential genre of music?

Cafe Society
1

I listen to tons of new metal (think Disturbed, Trapt, Mudvayne and the like). I’m pretty sure I’m not their target audience.

I also dig some, what others might consider to be, hardcore rap (think Dre, Eminem and The Lox). I don’t think they’re hardcore, but they’re no Will Smith, if you know what I mean. Again, I’m pretty sure I’m not what the record moguls envision when think of their market demographics.

I like classical music, jazz, alternative rock and pretty much everything else that’s out there, but I’m probably not such an anomaly in their target audience as I am with the aforementioned two genres.

Surely I’m not alone. How many others aren’t exactly the norm in the marketing demographics for the music to which you listen?

2

A lot of the stuff I listen to isn’t really marketed, so I guess I’m outside the target demographic just cause there is none.

3

I’m pretty much right in the middle of the demographic for the type of music I like - i.e. Electropop, Synthpop, etc.

25 years old - male (although it goes for both genders), white … yeah, it fits.

4

No, I’m in nobodys target audience.

I really enjoy a unique sound. Often, an entire genre of music will sound the same with the exception of maybe some unique band or singer, and I’ll attune to that.

Also, I’m probably too old to be in the current target audience. :slight_smile: My favorite bands are Roland Orzabel, The Fixx, Smashing Pumpkins, The The, Rush, and R.E.M.

5

Depending on my mood, I can either be in or out of the demographic. I like some of what’s played on VH1 and I’m on the younger end of their target audience. All of the angry girl type music? I’m front and center.

But some of the stuff that I listen to? I’m 20 miles from being a blip on the demographic radar…mostly because I’m too young.

6

Jeez, I hope not. As soon as it even looks like it’s going to be mass marketed I’m out of there.
I don’t want anything that appeals to a mass audience. Mass audiences mean huge ticket prices, Stadium shows with tens of thousands of fans screaming at minute little figures on a stage a half a mile away. Give me a little dive bar with fifty people and a cover of under ten dollars any day of the week.

7

I wasn’t even alive when my favorite music was new and marketable. Heck, neither were my parents.

I listen to Big Band constantly at work and I doubt they were trying to market to someone 70 years in the future.