No one with any music business experience see4ms to be answering. Here is the answer. The music industry. The idea is, smooth jazz, classic, blues, disco, new age, were too inclusive. They do not divide us up into neat little pockets so as to advertise to us. For example, your race, age, sex, location.  All those genres were yanked off the common radio as well. The heavy metal and rock genre wasnt doing the polarizing trick as well as country does. They are looking for a gop leaning middle aged audience. 30s. Not 50s and 60s. Those ages are not welcomed by the labels at all.  So therefore all we are gonna get is things like "Oldies" all hurled in a single bucket. So you literally might get elvis, playing next to the doors, and buddy holly followed by the supremes.  They see you as an older liberal.  They dont want you running into hard-to0-reach-you pockets like blues. Ask yourself... What is the typical audience that likes blues? What race? Age? Sex? Location? You cant give me that... However, what if I had rush limbaugh talking on a talk radio format... What uis the likely genre? Age? Race? Location? You might be able to better pinpoint the listener... If youre not deliberately trying to play the fly in the ointment in my post, so as to troll it... Its like the superbowl, this year. They openbly said they planned on hitting one of two demographics... 30s or the boomers and gen x. But the problem was, they admitted that they didnt want to hava a bunch of commercials depicting unmasked people in order to apease such an audience. So they opted for the millennials.. And thats why you got that half time show...  This is business. I like to sing jazz. Nat cole type stuff. I dont look like dian krull. This makes it so I cannot walk in her genre.  That audience is obviously an older white female audience. So one might have an aarp commercial or anti abortion spots and tht sort of thing. Its the harry connick audience. But I dont look like harry connic/ michael buble.  Its demographics. So say goodbye to heavy metal, smooth jazz, disco, straight ahead jazz, jazz standards, classical, opera, musicals, etc with any new artists, because the drop down to submit to such genres is already being removed on platforms from soundcloud to pandora. If youre a new artist that wants to make music that sounds like the commodore4s, or earth wind and fire, you have zero places to upload and find a new audience, without being a touring band that is directing people to your pandora music...If they ever accept you at all.  I just signed up. When signing up, they in fact, asked for my age, location, sex, and if I was gay or not (by asking if I am non binary) If I would have said I was gay or something, you can bet that kd lang or missy elliot (a perceived feminist)would be placed in front of me...Depending if I go into white artists or black artists. Under the form it says " why?" The following is what pandora says as to why they want that stuff... It is for the exact reasons I laid out, here:   Why does pandora need my zip code, gender, and birth year? Pandora collects registration data (birth year, gender and zip code) to customize and improve the products, services, content and advertising we provide to listeners. For example, the free version of pandora is supported by advertisements, and we want to be able to show the most relevant ads to our listeners. We use your age, gender and zip code (the three pieces of demographic information you provide at registration) to personalize advertising on pandora. This means we may pass anonymized age, gender or zip code information to our ad-serving partners so they can personalize the ads you see. Please note, however, that our advertisers never know who they are serving such ads to – only that the ad is being served to an anonymous person of a particular age, gender, and/or location.   Nowthen...Do you really think, that if you were hired to sell ads for pandora, that youre not letting people know who the heck the audience is that they are trying to reach, as they claim? We all know that such a thing isnt happening. No company is gonna drop a large  costly ad campaign with an advertiser not knowing who the heck they are reaching, and you know that.  All of this means absolute death for we, the local producers and artists. Because  pandora is bottle necking who can play, regardless of how good your product is, or how well it was recorded.  So even if you wanted to try to reach a pandora audience with for example new soft piano music... You can forget about that. They are not going to accept new people into that genre.  Moderator Edit: Format ... View more