Balance in personal listening habits.

[afterstasis]

A. Music you consider very familiar.
B. Music you have either only heard a time or three, or haven't heard in a long enough time it acts as a refresher.
C. Music that is totally new to your ears.

How do you tend to divide your listening time?

I would estimate mine like this:
A - 15%, B - 60%, C - 25%

[timmay9]

A: 30%
B: 40%
C: 30%

I've been listening to a lot more "totally new" in the past 3 or 4 months. Seen my own music collection rise about 10,000 or so in terms of songs.

[afterstasis]

I'm interested in hearing others' spread, but realized how difficult it is for me to accurately share my own since early in a new year I tend to lay off the new stuff but then really binge on that current years' new releases starting around summertime.

[clashcityrocker10]

A: 50%
B: 20%
C: 30%

I'd say these numbers accurately reflect my familiarity with the music I listen to, though ideally I'd have C bumped up a little higher.

[MrFruitLord]

A) 60%
B and C) 20% each

At this point, I have a pretty good grasp on whether or not I will want to listen to an album repeatedly based off of the first listen. Ever since Mediafire was neutered, I've had a harder time listening to new music.

[Mega-Tallica]

A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 25%

That B percentage is probably higher than it's ever been for me since I've been giving many artists second chances recently and the A percentage would have been way higher if I was asked this same thing 3 years ago.

[darkwinterbeast8]

A. 40%
B. 25%
C. 35%

Haven't really had as much of the urge to get back into listening to song/bands that have fallen out of my listening habits recently, especially the ones that I've gotten bored with. I try to even it out between bands regularly in my rotation and bands/songs I've never heard.

[BohemianMatt]

A: 80%
b: 10%
c: 10%

[Runesmith]

A: 30%
B: 35%
C: 35%

Pretty even spread. I can't listen to the same music ad nauseum unless I'm trying to learn how to play it on bass, so I always have something new on deck (that new music is 90% obscure 80s music, though; it's my favorite decade and there's so much goth rock and post punk I still haven't had the chance to dig at).

[FujiSkunk]

A: 50%
B: 10%
C: 40%

I'm a creature of habit, and there aren't a lot of gems from my childhood still yet to be unearthed. Still, I do try to give some good time to new music, even if I admittedly hedge my bets a little. Most of my "new" listening comes from scouring thrift stores and used music shops for records and CDs I don't yet own of my favorite artists, which I then give a thorough listen to. But I also have Rock Band (at least for now) and the occasional listen to the radio for other new stuff as well, not to mention recommendations from friends.