--- title: Spotify: 40 Universities That Listen and Stream The Most Music description: These are the 40 American colleges that listen to the most music canonical: https://time.com/3387947/spotify-music-colleges/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-17T14:46:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:14.797Z og:title: Here Are The 40 Colleges That Listen to the Most Music og:description: These are the 40 American colleges that listen to the most music og:url: https://time.com/3387947/spotify-music-colleges/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here Are The 40 Colleges That Listen to the Most Music twitter:description: These are the 40 American colleges that listen to the most music twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Are The 40 Colleges That Listen to The Most Music  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Sep 17, 2014 2:46 PM UTC  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Sep 17, 2014 2:46 PM UTC Spotify released its list of the 40 American universities that listen to the most music on the streaming service—and what the schools’ music habits reveal about their campus cultures. The 40 universities, which aren’t ranked, include The Ohio State University, Cornell, Brigham Young University, the University of Alabama, UCLA, NYU and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Here’s [the full list.](http://static.echonest.com/HowStudentsListen/school.html) Spotify analyzed listening patterns to determine which college has the earliest risers, which campus love country music, which school is the most stressed, and more. Here are some of the insights: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3387947/spotify-music-colleges/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3387947/spotify-music-colleges/"},"headline":"These Are The 40 Colleges That Listen to The Most Music","datePublished":"2014-09-17T14:46:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:14.797Z","description":"According to Spotify data","url":"https://time.com/3387947/spotify-music-colleges/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","U.S."],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3387947/spotify-music-colleges/","name":"These Are The 40 Colleges That Listen to The Most Music"}}]}] ```