{"id":2332,"date":"2025-09-09T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:33:44","slug":"hicup-research-on-music-and-age-featured-in-international-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/hicup-research-on-music-and-age-featured-in-international-press\/","title":{"rendered":"HICUP Research on Music and Age Featured in International Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent study by HICUP Lab members Matej Golubovikj and Marko Tkal\u010di\u010d, conducted in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/alansaid.com\/\">Alan Said<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gu.se\/en\">University of Gothenburg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ju.se\/personinfo.html?id=3333\">Bruce Ferwerda<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/ju.se\/en\">J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping University<\/a>, has received international media attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research explored how age influences music listening behavior, using data collected over 15 years from more than 40,000 users. The dataset included over 542 million plays of more than 1 million songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resulting article, titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3708319.3733673\">Soundtracks of Our Lives: How Age Influences Musical Preferences<\/a><\/em>, was featured on international news sites, science and research news platforms, and radio channels with wide audiences. You can find the news here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1097032\">EurekAlert!<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphagalileo.org\/en-gb\/Item-Display\/ItemId\/262689\">AlphaGalileo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dn.se\/kultur\/favoritlatarna-blir-farre-ju-aldre-vi-blir\/\">Dagens Nyheter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/as-we-grow-older-our-music-taste-appears-to-narrow-to-fewer-songs-80750\">IFLScience<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-older-favorite-songs.html\">Phys.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/articles\/fewer-favourite-songs-grow-older-142323925.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIzfUEfAdfnV2wMFOTKUMUbk2kBch63lul15UCg5ZXV5UXvUAiFA3W-RiXKM1Y91U6yfEbAKKXpwwEPqA_9ks0DPpgK6f_05ny4K6iwn5NWF88Lbj59MjCWuds_QaAtwJkCrBWBdUNjTK5euSJL2Yf4GuCgkHVllOFeVJ2xP_r7g\">Yahoo Life<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slobodenpecat.mk\/nova-studija-go-potvrduva-toa-kako-shto-stareeme-imame-se-pomalku-omileni-pesni\/\">Sloboden Pe\u010dat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sverigesradio.se\/artikel\/musiksmak-smalnar-av-hos-aldre-atervander-till-det-gamla-valbekanta\">Swedish Radio Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.um.org\/umap2025\/\">UMAP 2025<\/a> conference. More details can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/hicup-lab-showcases-research-at-umap-2025-in-nyc\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_214512562-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_214512562-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_214512562-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_214512562-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_214512562-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_214512562-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_142543162-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_142543162-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_142543162-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_142543162-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_142543162-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_142543162-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250618_142543162-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow HICUP Lab in its official channels for more updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HicupLab\">X (formerly Twitter)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\">Website<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBY8PSOvo2ssWAPFJ2DBLtQ\">Youtube<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/school\/hicuplab\">Linkedin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For feedback regarding our media content, you may contact our&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:michelle.fernando@famnit.upr.si\">Social media and web manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by HICUP Lab members Matej Golubovikj and Marko Tkal\u010di\u010d, conducted in collaboration with Alan Said from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}