Study: Music successful CEOs and c-level executives listen to when they want to be more productive, 2023
A survey from the CEOWORLD magazine says listening to music reduces depression, anxiety, blood pressure, and improves sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory. An average person listens to 950 hours and 30 minutes of music per year and hears roughly 1.2 million songs in their lifetime.
We asked 210,000 CEOs, CFOs, senior executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals what songs they play when they need to get themselves in a more productive mood. From Mozart to Beethoven, here are the music pieces theses c-level executives turn up to get the job done.
– Fully 84.2% of respondents believed that music increases their productivity.
– That positive effect spans industries but especially strong in finance and banking.
– 92.4% of respondents think Classical Music Pieces make them more productive.
Although music doesn’t magically turn us into geniuses, lead researchers at CEOWORLD magazine has a point. Research shows that people are generally more productive when they listen to it. According to one study, those who listened to music finished worked faster and had higher-quality outcomes than those who didn’t.
Here’s a list of songs that successful CEOs, CFOs, senior executives, business leaders, and high net worth individuals listen to when they want to be productive to add to your playlist.
Music successful CEOs and c-level executives listen to when they want to be more productive, 2023
| Rank | Greatest Composers |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) |
| 2 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
| 3 | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| 4 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
| 5 | Claude Debussy (1862-1918) |
| 6 | György Ligeti (1923-2006) |
| 7 | Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) |
| 8 | Richard Wagner (1813-83) |
| 9 | Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) |
| 10 | Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) |
| 11 | Frederic Chopin (1810-49) |
| 12 | Steve Reich (b.1936) |
| 13 | Johannes Brahms (1833-97) |
| 14 | Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) |
| 15 | Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) |
| 16 | Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) |
| 17 | Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) |
| 18 | Béla Bartók (1881-1945) |
| 19 | Kaija Saariaho (b1952) |
| 20 | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) |
| 21 | Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) |
| 22 | Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) |
| 23 | Leos Janáček (1854-1928) |
| 24 | Franz Schubert (1797-1828) |
| 25 | George Gershwin (1898-1937) |
| 26 | Philip Glass (b.1937) |
| 27 | Charles Ives (1874-1954) |
| 28 | Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) |
| 29 | Witold Lutosławski (1913-94) |
| 30 | John Cage (1912-92) |
| 31 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) |
| 32 | Alban Berg (1885-1935) |
| 33 | Morton Feldman (1926-87) |
| 34 | Pandit Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) |
| 35 | Edgar Varèse (1883-1965) |
| 36 | Anton Webern (1883-1945) |
| 37 | Richard Strauss (1864-1949) |
| 38 | Richard Strauss (1864-1949) |
| 39 | Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) |
| 40 | Edward Elgar (1857-1934) |
| 41 | Harrison Birtwistle (b1934-2022) |
| 42 | Oliver Knussen (1952-2018) |
| 43 | Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) |
| 44 | Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1 July 1938) |
| 45 | Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) |
| 46 | Erik Satie (1866-1925) |
| 47 | Thomas Tallis (c1505-85) |
| 48 | Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) |
| 49 | Robert Schumann (1810-56) |
| 50 | Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) |
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