Most Students With High GPA (3.5-4.0) Listens To Taylor Swift, Study Says

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A study conducted by College Rover – a US website that helps match students to college courses – has revealed some interesting details about student listening habits, including overall favourite artists and genres, and those favoured by the highest achieving students.

The main finding is that pop, lo-fi and hip-hop music are the best genres to listen to while studying, with reggae, blues and folk being the least. And when it comes to artists, Taylor Swift is the top star listened to by students with high GPAs (GPA being Grade Point Average, the US system of grading how a student scores on courses).

Just behind Swift, The Weeknd comes in second, SZA third and Harry Styles just misses the podium in fourth place.

The study surveyed 1,025 students aged between 18 and 23 to try and establish how music affects them during study. College Rover also looked at Spotify’s ‘study’ playlists to find the most popular genres and artists listened to by students while working.

Other interesting takeaways are that classical and instrumental music are the most popular genres listened to by students with high GPAs, with metal and hip-hop being the least. The top reasons for people listening to music while studying are, not surprisingly, to make it more enjoyable and to reduce stress.

Finally, when it comes to favourite artists to listen to while studying, regardless of how well students score on the GPA scale, female students answered SZA, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd, while male students chose The Weeknd, 21 Savage and Kendrick Lamar.

 

Key Takeaways

- 38% of students said they very often listen to music while studying, and 27% said they always do.

- Taylor Swift is the top artist for students with high GPAs (3.5-4.0).

- People who listen to metal while studying are the least likely to have a high GPA (37%).

- Male students are 166% more likely than female students to listen to EDM while studying.

- The most common genres in studying playlists on Spotify are lo-fi, classical/instrumental, and soundtrack.
 

 

https://collegerover.com/campus-library/news/78/best-songs-for-studying

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/intelligent-people-taylor-swift-official-125806563.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALMpnJSu-GokSAfSg0tbDf_p1OKvU6vjoutZ5ps4VLl_rSkIkFbWOn6IPUKxulwrKiDaZyJL77kFtRSUUJfTxHBRz9d0K-kGLHwawufM4xaBRKlJ64YDKzkt8f2i3f1aL-3OE4NQ9w_r2bbIQMg4INY3oMvS8M6o4cVWec-CaYb4

 

[Easy 5,186]

Abel winning

[SharkmanthaC 111,408]

What if you already finished school but still had a 4.0 and listen to Taylor? 

[Virgin Ryan 1,296]

I listen to Gaga and I get high GPA too lol

[Agunimon 21,416]

Hey! Low GPA students such as myself also listen to Taylor. 

[HiddenWeirdo 4,267]

Okay okay, so the higher the GPA the more you have to study, the less work-life balance you have, the less time you have to create good taste 

[holy scheisse 21,314]

What if we told you we are masterminds 

[Evil R 1,084]

Correlation does not imply causation. 

[Red 92,153]

That kinda makes sense? Her style of writing uses more metaphors than direct messages and that does require a little more of intelligence from listeners. But then again she's not the only artist that does that (at all) so...

[gumzy3000 6,749]

Could it just be that since Taylor Swift has been the biggest artist for the past 10 years, a lot of people just listen to her in general? 

[PunkTheFunk 122,883]

1 hour ago, HiddenWeirdo said:

Okay okay, so the higher the GPA the more you have to study, the less work-life balance you have, the less time you have to create good taste 

[Easy 5,186]

In terms of songwriting, Taylor’s music relies on few notes only.

less melodic songs probably means less distraction as background music.

[HiddenWeirdo 4,267]

3 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

This should have been the topic of my master thesis.. imagine my interpretation of the empirical analysis 

[TheOriginalOne 9,141]

1 hour ago, holy scheisse said:

What if we told you we are masterminds 

Swifties rn: 

 

[BlingNotTheMusic 30,819]

In the "United States"