Two thousand hours. If your playlist is focused in this direction, one needs to take into account how much listening time users will have on average with work, school, sleep, personal recreation where music listening might be limited in some fashion. Incidentally, the change coincides with the rise of digital music formats, such as the MP3. You can set up early and sound check during a time that the bar is relatively empty, and go away and come back. I would say no more than 2 hours worth of music, which most music listeners can get into even on repeat listens if your playlists are much more Mix Tape focused. A music CD can hold 60-70 minutes of music and the average pop song is about 5 minutes long. Traffic Cop (Rue du Marais) Posts: 10,174; don't expect, suggest ; Re: How many songs should be played at the average concert? Therefore, 64,000 / 8 = 8,000 high quality tracks which can be loaded on your MP3 device. A superior quality (320 kbps) 3-minute song can be around 8–10 MB. The average speed for a Number One is 118.5 beats per minute – so each beat falls about twice a second. Logged Droo. Forty thousand three minute tracks would be the equivalent of 2,000 hours of music. Logged TheU2Ken. Do the math and you’ll see that gives you about 12 songs per CD. Additionally, while only 1 percent of hit songs were 2… Between 2013 to 2018, the average song on the Billboard Hot 100 decreased in length by 20 seconds. « Reply #1 on: March 18, 2014, 02:14:00 PM » No less than 15, and no more than 25. I have about 425 CDs in my music library, a wide range of genres, from country to classical, jazz to blues, and here’s what I found: To begin with, 64 GB is roughly 64,000 MB. I will assume that you are the only band playing, which is a good thing because you have the stage all to yourself. Well, they are, and the shift is dramatic. In preparation for my 2008 song-a-week project, I wanted some numbers to give me an idea of how much writing I would need to do. What should be the average set length and number of songs played? In the 90s, the number spiked to an average of 3.13 writers and 3.49 publishers per top 10 song. Using the 80/20 rule—only 20 percent of my writing will make the cut while 80 percent will go into the waste basket—here is what I came up with.. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen averages 281 words per song. Now, let’s assume that the average length of these tracks is three minutes; a fair, finger-in-the-air guess at the mean length of a modern day pop song. But I figured I’d do a bit of math here too.