Exploring the Interconnections Between Psychological, UX, Algorithmic, and Business Dimensions in Music Streaming Platforms

Music streaming has changed how people listen to music today. In this paper , 30+ studies were reviewed, and that helped to understand how users engage with streaming platforms, how the platforms affects the user behaviour and how these platforms influence behaviour of users. This review focused on important factors such as psychological motivation, emotion regulation and habit formation. It showed that design and recommendation systems effect user engagement. Techniques such as collaborative filtering help to understand user preferences. It was found that recommendation systems increase user experience ,and interface design and psychological motivations effect long term engagement . Also ,the gap between user satisfaction and actual listening behaviours was observed. This study also identified limitations in current research , such as absence of cross-culture and long term studies . This review provided insights for researchers, designers and developers that helped in better understanding of user engagement and music streaming systems that will be developed in future .