世論 What Japan Thinks

I’ve never heard the term music SNS before, although now that I read what it is I understand what they are referring to. The survey on this subject was from iBridge Research Plus and reported on by japan.internet.com.

Demographics

On the 14th of June 2010 300 members of the iBridge research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.7% of the sample were male, 10.3% in their twenties, 34.3% in their thirties, 34.7% in their forties, 15.0% in their fifties, and 5.7% in their sixties.

I like music, but I’ve just fallen out of the habit of listening to it, so music SNSs are even less appealing than straightforward SNSs! The last time I listened to music off my own bat was this rather entertaining number:

Research results

First of all, seven people disliked music to some degree, so they were eliminated and the remaining 293 asked the following.

Q1A: Do you like listening, singing, or performing music? (Sample size=293)

Listening only	57.0%
Singing only	3.8%
Performing only	1.7%
Both listening and singing	26.6%
Both listening and performing	2.7%
Both singing and performing	0.7%
Listening, singing and performing	7.5%

Another way of looking at the data is this:

Q1B: Do you like listening, singing, or performing music? (Sample size=300)

	Votes	Percentage
Listening	275	91.7%
Singing	113	37.7%
Performing	37	12.3%
None of them	7	2.3%

Q2A: Do you participate in a music SNS? (Sample size=293)

Yes (to SQ)	1.7%
No	51.5%
Don’t know what it is	46.8%

Adding in the music haters from above we get:

Q2B: Do you participate in a music SNS? (Sample size=300)

Yes (to SQ)	1.7%
No	50.3%
Don’t know what it is	45.7%
Don’t like music	2.3%

Q2SQ: Which music SNSs do you participate in? (Sample size=5, multiple answer)

MySpace	4
Uta-uga	1
Uta-suki	1
last.fm	0
Natalie	0
Jamming Music Station	0
MenboScape	0
Gosnavi	0
syncl	0
yanpon.com	0
AngesParty	0
Other	1

The sample size above is too small to make percentages meaningful.