What College Students Are Listening To

Many college students have different tastes when it comes to their favorite music. While some like country music, other college students like rap. While some like rap others prefer rock. At this time of year most college students have packed up their favorites CDs or their iPod downloaded with their favorite tunes and headed back to school for the year. While college students may have different tastes in styles of music, one item that they cannot live without out is their iPod.

Where the college is located or where the college student is from may have an influence on the type of music that the student prefers. And some students prefer listening to a variety of music rather than just one genre. Let's break it down by type of music and see what is popular with the college students of today.

For those students who are rap and hip-hop fans their top picks in the rap and hip-hop category, the songs that they just can't live without, according to Apple (www.apple.com) are:

1. Chain Hang Low by Jibbs
2. Bossy (Featuring Too $hort) by Kelis
3. U and Dat by E-40
4. Shoulder Lean by Young Dro featuring T.I.
5. Looking for I Know You See It (Featuring Brandy "Ms. B" Hambrick) by Yung Joc
6. Snap Yo Fingers by Lil Jon featuring E-40 & Sean Paul
7. It's Goin' Down (Featuring Nitti) by Yung Joc
8. Ridin' by Chamillionaire & Krayzie Bone
9. Looking for Morris Brown by OutKast featuring Scar & Sleepy Brown
10. Vans by The Pack

When it comes to the favorite rappers of all times VH1 put out a list on their website at www.VH1.com were broken down like this:

1. Run-D.M.C.
2. Public Enemy
3. 2Pac
4. The Notorious B.I.G.
5. LL Cool J
6. Eminem
7. Dr. Dre
8. Grandmaster Flash
9. Salt-N-Pepa
10. Jay-Z

Isn't it interesting that some of the top 10 rappers of all times were voted on by college students that weren't even born yet when the rap artists broke into the industry? It doesn't seem to matter to them. They enjoy the talent of the rappers listed here even if they were still the twinkle in their mother's eye when Run-D.M.C. broke out on the scene.

A few rappers were recently honored with a Teen Choice Award for 2006 in the following categories: Best Hip-hop track went to Nelly Furtado, featuring Timbaland for "Promiscuous." The song of the summer went to Nelly Furtado, featuring Timbaland for "Promiscuous." And finally, the V Cast Music artist of the year went to Nelly Furtado.

For those students who are rock band fans, their top picks in the rock category, the rock bands that they just can't live without, are:

1. Green Day
2. System of a Down
3. Slipknot
4. Blink 182
5. Linkin Park
6. KoRn
7. Metallica
8. Simple Plan
9. Nickelback
10. AC/DC
11. Nirvana
12. Good Charlotte
13. H.I.M.
14. Marilyn Manson
15. Evanescence

Isn't it sort of amusing that some of the favorite rock bands are rockers that were rocking way before some college students were even born? I guess some of them were rocking while they were still in the womb or just a twinkle in their mother's eye!

A few rockers were recently honored with a Teen Choice Award for 2006 in the following categories: Best Single went to Fall Out Boy for Dance, Dance. Choice Music: Rock Group went to Fall Out Boy. Choice Rock Track went to Fall Out Boy for Dance, Dance.

And then there is country music. The 41st Annual Country Music Awards took place a few months ago. The awards presented to various country music artists speak volumes about who are the favorites and who college students are listening to when they are country music fans.

• Entertainer of the Year went to Kenny Chesney
• Top Female Vocalist went to Sara Evans
• Top Vocal Duo went to Brookes & Dunn
• Top Male Vocalist went to Keith Urban
• Top Vocal Group went to Rascal Flatts
• Top New Female Vocalist and Single Record of the Year went to Carrie Underwood
• Vocal Event of the Year went to Brad Paisley for When I Get Where I'm Going
• Top New Duo or Vocal Group went to Sugarland
• Video of the Year went to Brad Paisley for When I Get Where I'm Going
• Top New Male Vocalist went to Jason Aldean
• Album of the Year went to Brad Paisley for Time Well Wasted
• Song of the Year went to Brookes & Dunn for Believe

So, in a nutshell college students are listening to a variety of music from country to rap to R&B to rock. Whatever they are listening to is usually downloaded onto their iPods so that they can listen to their favorite tunes while they are on the go.

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