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Acquiring Pandora would give SiriusXM access to the fast-growing online segment of listeners, those who prefer streaming music through mobile phones.
In a classical repertoire of hundreds of set pieces, there are several different combinations, but to many listeners those situations seem rather puzzling at first hearing, with apparently two kinds of music going on at the same time.
And then there are those whom Rob Wells at Universal Music Group calls "dinner party pirates": the vast majority of listeners, those who copy music illegally because it is more convenient than buying it.
Over the last decade, the number of so-called unique listeners — those who tune in at least once a week — has impressively increased: to 25 million from 12.5 million, according to figures from the ratings service Arbitron provided by NPR.
According to the Radio Advertising Bureau, Top 40 listeners -- those who tune in to KISS-FM in Los Angeles or WBBM in Chicago, for example -- are 18- to-34-year-olds who buy CD players, drink Coors Light beer and drive a Toyota Celica.
As a business, jazz has depended on the support of casual listeners, those who like the idea of jazz and perhaps care about it as environment as much as music — maybe the kind who brought their collapsible chairs to sit in front of the main stage all day and will not move, no matter which young DownBeat poll-winner is holding it down on one of the other stages.
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And on the days when the clubs are quiet and the artists still need to eat, the trick is locating those listeners, finding those pockets and playing them.
I would explain to those early listeners and those I speak to today that there is a lot to say for the psychic joys of a physical book, but, in the end, there is one hard truth that is inescapable.
To careful listeners, or those with good audio equipment, more data can make a big difference.
He claims that the quirky personalities of the past inspired and attracted more listeners than those on the air today.
Of course, these distinctions will be invisible to most American listeners, even those with a particular interest in the music.
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