TY - JOUR
T1 - Music streaming services: understanding the drivers of customer purchase and intention to recommend
AU - Barata, Mariana Lopes
AU - Coelho, Pedro Simoes
N1 - Barata, M. L., & Coelho, P. S. (2021). Music streaming services: understanding the drivers of customer purchase and intention to recommend. Heliyon, 7(8). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07783
PY - 2021/8/1
Y1 - 2021/8/1
N2 - The music industry has undergone tremendous changes in relation to its production, distribution, and consumption habits due to the exponential development of new technologies, namely streaming platforms. The fact that sales of physical copies continue to decline significantly made it mandatory for this industry to reinvent itself by introducing music streaming services as a key part of its business development. This study aims to understand the factors that influence music consumption through streaming platforms, particularly studying the intention to adopt premium (paid) versions of a music streaming service and recommend them. An extension of the UTAUT2 model (version of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, applied to the consumer side) was created. Based on data collected from 324 music streaming services users, the framework of this study was tested using structural equation modelling (SEM). Research also included in-depth semi-structured interviews in order to generate a more profound knowledge about the profile, behaviours and motivations of the new music consumer. Our findings confirm that habit, performance expectancy and price value play the most important role in influencing the intention to use a paid music streaming service. Simultaneously, new dimensions such as personalisation, attitude towards piracy and perceived freemium-premium fit arise as having an additional relevant role in adopting this type of service. The research contributes insights into music streaming services consumer behaviour, providing several theoretical and practical implications to music streaming services providers.
AB - The music industry has undergone tremendous changes in relation to its production, distribution, and consumption habits due to the exponential development of new technologies, namely streaming platforms. The fact that sales of physical copies continue to decline significantly made it mandatory for this industry to reinvent itself by introducing music streaming services as a key part of its business development. This study aims to understand the factors that influence music consumption through streaming platforms, particularly studying the intention to adopt premium (paid) versions of a music streaming service and recommend them. An extension of the UTAUT2 model (version of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, applied to the consumer side) was created. Based on data collected from 324 music streaming services users, the framework of this study was tested using structural equation modelling (SEM). Research also included in-depth semi-structured interviews in order to generate a more profound knowledge about the profile, behaviours and motivations of the new music consumer. Our findings confirm that habit, performance expectancy and price value play the most important role in influencing the intention to use a paid music streaming service. Simultaneously, new dimensions such as personalisation, attitude towards piracy and perceived freemium-premium fit arise as having an additional relevant role in adopting this type of service. The research contributes insights into music streaming services consumer behaviour, providing several theoretical and practical implications to music streaming services providers.
KW - Adoption
KW - Customer purchase
KW - Intention to recommend
KW - SEM
KW - Music streaming services
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UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000691778100030
U2 - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07783
DO - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07783
M3 - Article
SN - 2405-8440
VL - 7
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Heliyon
JF - Heliyon
IS - 8
M1 - e07783
ER -