Surveys say: Some recent studies about music and music fans

I’m forever being sent the results of various music surveys. Most are barely-disguised ads for a company repackaged by a marketing company to look like scholarly research (the British are especially adept at this, largely on behalf of online betting sites and ticket resellers), but there is also some proper science being done as well. Here’s what I’ve learned so far this year. Best songs for stress relief: A health-care company called The Intake commissioned a study of 155,626 tracks on 560 stress-relief and mental health playlists on Spotify in order to find the song used most often for chill…