18 Million Bluegrass Fans

The May/June issue of International Bluegrass, the trade newsletter published by IBMA, has a story citing recent polling data from the Simmons Research firm that says there are 17,977,000 bluegrass fans in the US. That’s 8.5% of the adult population who listed bluegrass as the the musical genre they liked most. Bluegrass music found the 18th slot on a list of the 38 top choices for music genre. Here’s a little more data on this same group of people.

The bluegrass fans are:

52% aged between 25-5453% male
80% own their home
20% have an income of over $100,000

posted on the Bluegrass Blog - 5-20-06

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