surveys

After doing a survey on Survey Monkey I decided to go to town and do a survey where I went up to people and asked them what genre of music they listened to. In total I asked 52 people in town and these are the results I got;

The majority of people in town said they liked Rock/Metal/Punk music rather than Chart/Pop/Hip-Hop. I think by doing a magazine like Kerrang! or Rocksound it would make my magazine reach a wider audience than if I did a magazine that just featured Punk music (one that got the most votes in town survey). This results go quite well with  the ones from survey monkey. The only problem with doing this survey in town and asking random people was that not everyone would stop to talk and the people that did were ones that fit into a certain category of people. This doesn't reflect the whole population because I only managed to reach people who were in town that day and who would actually stop.

After doing the survey in town I thought I would give it one last go and ask people in school what genre of music they listened to. In total I asked 37 people. These are the results I got;

These results are quite different to the ones I got from Survey Monkey and the ones from town. Quite a few of the students said they did like Rock/Metal/Punk but more of the students said they listened to Chart/Pop/Hip-Hop. I think for my magazine I will stick with the idea of a Kerrang! style because overall more people said they listened to Rock/Metal/Punk than Chart/Pop/Hip-Hop. Although this survey helped because I know that my target audience may not be students at Marlwood school people who fit into a more alternative scene like town or the people on twitter ect.