[UA Events] SpringFEST Survey Results

[Victoria S Petrova]

Hello Undergrads!

Thank you for filling out the SpringFEST Survey and letting us know what type of music you want to hear! We received over 1,500 responses and are working on matching this year’s main artist to your interests within the constraints of our budget.

UA Events receives $125,000 for the purpose of SpringFEST from a portion of the student life fee<http://web.mit.edu/ua/exec/officers/treasurer/slf/dist_14.pdf> under the SAO (the budget got raised this year due to a raise in the student life fee). In addition, the committee also receives a smaller budget for events throughout the year which comes from UA allocations<http://ua.mit.edu/budgets/>. While we try to match your interests, please note that big name artists (Beyonce, the Chainsmokers) cost upwards of a million dollars, not including staging and venue prep. Given this, we have read through all of the write-in artists and are working on finding talent that matches the most popular genres.


Below is a summary of survey results (also attached in a PDF):


General Concert Format

There was a strong preference for the traditional concert format of having a main headliner artist over a festival style featuring multiple artists.

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Cost of Tickets

68.5% of responders are willing to pay up to $10-20 for Spring Fest.

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Top Genres

The top four genres picked were:

  1.  Pop

  2.  Hip-hop/Rap

  3.  Alternative Indie

  4.  Electronic/EDM


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Pop

The top artists selected were:

  1.  Beyonce

  2.  Maroon 5

  3.  Twenty One Pilots


Answer


%


Count


Beyoncé


66.34%


611


Sia


51.57%


475


Rihanna


51.79%


477


Adele


48.21%


444


Alessia Cara


21.72%


200


Maroon 5


60.69%


559


OneRepublic


49.51%


456


Justin Bieber


30.29%


279


Shawn Mendez


24.86%


229


Selena Gomez


26.93%


248


Twenty One Pilots


53.85%


496


Total


100%


921



Hip-hop/Rap

The top artists selected were:

  1.  Kendrick Lamar

  2.  Drake

  3.  Kanye West


Answer


%


Count


Chance the Rapper


60.35%


443


Drake


67.57%


496


Kanye West


65.26%


479


Jay Z


36.92%


271


Big Sean


22.62%


166


J Cole


43.05%


316


Kendrick Lamar


67.98%


499


Wiz Khalifa


24.66%


181


Future


28.47%


209


Lil Wayne


26.57%


195


Total


100%


734



Alternative/Indie

The top artists selected were:

  1.  Vampire Weekend

  2.  Two Door Cinema Club

  3.  Young the Giant


Answer


%


Count


Matt & Kim


27.99%


194


Brand New


5.92%


41


Hudson Taylor


2.60%


18


Clean Bandit


22.51%


156


OK Go


28.57%


198


Young the Giant


47.33%


328


Vampire Weekend


53.39%


370


Two Door Cinema Club


49.21%


341


MGMT


49.78%


345


Sleigh Bells


6.06%


42


Total


100%


693



Electronic/EDM:

The top artists selected were:

  1.  The Chainsmokers

  2.  Calvin Harris

  3.  Major Lazer


Answer


%


Count


Major Lazer


53.11%


324


Calvin Harris


62.46%


381


Kaskade


16.07%


98


DJ Snake


37.70%


230


The Chainsmokers


74.59%


455


Skrillex


25.57%


156


Axwell


7.54%


46


Krewella


14.10%


86


Zedd


47.05%


287


Flume


51.31%


313


Kuge


1.97%


12


Jack U


19.18%


117


Tiesto


29.51%


180


Avicii


55.57%


339


Diplo


34.75%


212


Total


100%


610



Rock

The top artists selected were:

  1.  Coldplay

  2.  Arctic Monkeys

  3.  Red Hot Chili Peppers


Answer


%


Count


Hozier


37.97%


202


Fall Out Boy


49.62%


264


Coldplay


58.27%


310


St. Vincent


10.53%


56


Red Hot Chili Peppers


53.95%


287


U2


25.19%


134


Paramore


34.77%


185


Bastille


42.11%


224


Arctic Monkeys


55.83%


297


KONGOS


13.72%


73


Total


100%


532



R&B/Soul

The top artists selected were:

  1.  The Weeknd

  2.  Frank Ocean

  3.  John Legend


Answer


%


Count


August Alsina


10.26%


35


Frank Ocean


62.17%


212


Pharell Williams


41.94%


143


Jhene Aiko


29.91%


102


Sam Smith


48.68%


166


Sevyn Streeter


6.16%


21


Jeremih


18.48%


63


The Weeknd


69.50%


237


Tinashe


22.87%


78


John Legend


52.79%


180


Total


100%


341



Country

The top artists selected were:

  1.  Taylor Swift

  2.  Luke Bryan

  3.  Florida Georgia Line


Answer


%


Count


Lydia Loveless


2.82%


5


Carrie Underwood


54.24%


96


Taylor Swift


63.84%


113


Lady Antebellum


45.20%


80


Sugarland


19.77%


35


Josh Turner


18.08%


32


Luke Bryan


58.76%


104


Gavin DeGraw


29.38%


52


Florida Georgia Line


58.19%


103


Total


100%


177



Thank you for participating and reading, and let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at ua-events-chairs at mit.edu<mailto:ua-events-chairs at mit.edu>!


Love,


The UA Events Committee
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