Music information seeking behaviour among the students of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek

Summary The aim of this paper is to give a short overview of some available studies about music information seeking and to present the research that identified music information seeking behaviour among university students. Quantitative methodology was used in the research. An online questionnaire was completed by the students from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek (Croatia). The results of the research show that the majority of the respondents search for music information on the Internet (99.2%), and that they listen to music on smartphones (97.5%) or computers (90.8%), using the YouTube application (98.3%) several times per day (81.7%) on average. Most of the students possess their own personal music collection (72.5%). More than one-half of the respondents search for music by the performers (65%) or titles (63.33%) and prefer rock (60.8%) and pop (55%) music genres. Students indicate that the main reasons for listening to music are entertainment (93.3%) and decreasing boredom or loneliness (78.3%).