In 2011, when this study was carried out, it was discovered that MP3 was the most popular device for listening to music every day, when 65% of people said that this is what they use. In 2014, I don't own an MP3 player or iPod due to the ability to store a large number of songs on my phone.
To my amazement, 18% of people still listened to CDs on a CD player in 2011. I don't use CDs due to the ability to download or stream music onto my computer or phone.
Another thing that I found interesting from reading this article was that the average number of single tracks on an MP3 player is nearly 2800. This is nearly a 1000 track increase from the results in 2008 where the average track collection was merely 1771.
In comparison to me in 2014, the graph looks as though I should have a considerable amount more tracks on my device, however, I have just over 150 songs. My explanation for this will be that I stream music from Blinkbox regularly.
In terms of music sharing, and downloading songs illegally, this article found that in 2011, illegal downloads go music decreased by 23% since 2008. This is quite surprising as technology is becoming increasingly better, thus allowing us to download music a lot easier. However, according to this 60% of people download their music legally.
Admittedly, I will use a youtube converter to get some of my songs, while others I will use iTunes and pay for them. For me there is a split between how much I pay for and how much I don't.
Over-all. this article has shown that although technology is become better and more advanced, therefore allowing us to use a variety of different devices to listen to music everyday, most people don't take this opportunity to get music via online sharing or illegally downloading. It also shows that in young people, they are storing more music on their devices.
