Pandora Response

Pandora.com is becoming an extremely popular website for music lovers everywhere. Instead of just listing the new and popular songs, allowing you to just listen to thirty seconds of it, like iTunes does; Pandora searches for songs in the same category as the ones you choose in your own playlist. All you need to do is type in a song that you like and press create. In a matter of seconds you have choices of songs that the experts of Pandora categorized with the song you typed in. These music experts categorize songs by analyzing every detail of the song.

According to Rob Walker, the author of the article "The Song Decoders", Pandora "has attracted 35 million listeners and claims about 65,000 new sign-ups a day." The coolest thing about Pandora is that it "ignores the crowd." The goal of the website is not to advertise certain bands and songs, or make hit songs more popular, but instead to focus solely on your interests, the songs you like and want to listen to. I think that this is the reason Pandora is becoming so popular. For once your not listening to songs other people find good, like on the radio or television.

The only down side of Pandora is the fact that it only advertises to iPhone users. Because of this, not as many people know about the wonders of Pandora. If they were to advertise to all people interested in music, (which is pretty much everyone in the world) they would become extremely popular and would change music forever. Pandora could give artists that are not so popular a better chance to become successful. It also allows the listener to expand their music library.

Overall, I think that Pandora will eventually become one of the most popular ways to search for new music. I think that it is brilliant and different. I advise you to check it out now and take advantage of it while its free, because I am sure that will change in only a matter of time!