Dear Ashley,
Your post today is again very stimulating and also about stimulation, namely about our sense of hearing, how it is shaped, influences and helps determine future listening, purchasing and consumption habits.
In fact, we humans are not only "eye beings", but also "ear beings".
In some of our languages, to the surprise of many, the verb "(to) hear" occurs in various other and different words, including nouns, adjectives and adverbs, and in the spiritual realm of belief and faith, hearing and the ear play a "key" and even "keyhole role" from the earliest beginning.
So your post today goes far beyond listening to music, but into hearing information and acoustic articulation of all kinds, into the different degrees of the corresponding verbal or acoustic accessibility of us humans, our ability and willingness to receive help of all kinds in this way, including education, encouragement and support.
What we have said here about hearing applies in adapted and modified ways to the other of our 5 or 7 core senses, to our generalized senses and to our (generalized) inner and outer domains, spheres and layers.
In times of our thoughts about future space travels to the most distant or farthest worlds and always interactively, according to the above considerations, "inner" or "mental space travels" also belong to the area of what we are concerned with, last but not least in OR-MS and using OR-MS.
Many thanks to you again,
and also to the whole INFORMS team, which provides and maintains this precious discussion forum.
With kind regards,
best wishes,
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (Willi)
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Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Professor
Poznan University of Technology
Poznan
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-17-2025 08:31
From: Ashley Smith
Subject: New Research: How Spotify Shapes Your Music Listening Habits with Playlists
BALTIMORE, MD, January 17, 2025 – It's a common assumption that music streaming has changed how we listen to music in a physical sense, but a new study has revealed just how streaming has impacted consumers' listening tastes. The research, which focused on Spotify, has found that when people listen to music via streaming, they are more likely to listen to platform-generated playlists, especially those prominently featured on Spotify's Search Page, instead of playlists created by third parties such as major music labels. The study also finds that users are more likely to listen to certain playlists as superstar artists are added to them, and featuring playlists prominently on Spotify attracts about two times more followers than the presence of major label superstars on playlists.
Click here to read the full press release.
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Ashley Smith
Public Relations Specialist
INFORMS
Baltimore MD
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