Old Welsh geezers download the most music

Forty per cent of people over 50 own an iPod or MP3 player and have downloaded an average of 45 tracks from the internet. One in 20 of them has downloaded more than 500 songs.

Smooth Radio - which this week launched new stations in London, the East and West Midlands, the North West of England and Glasgow - commissioned a poll to discover the listening habits of the UK's 11 million listeners aged between 45 and 60. The average wrinkly has a music collection comprising 75 vinyl records, 52 cassettes and 114 CDs. Scottish hipsters own an average of 140 CDs, almost double the number owned by their hip replacement southern counterparts.

One in five of the 3,760 over-50s polled have 200 or more CDs and four percent have more than 500 vinyl albums in their collections. More than half - 55 percent - now listen to radio via the computer, while a third own a digital radio, and they go to an average of two live rock or pop concerts a year. The survey does not explain why Welsh music buffs download the most music and those in London the least. µ

Average CD ownership

1. Scotland - 140
2. South West - 130
3. North West - 123
4. South East - 117
5. Midlands - 109
6. London - 107
7. Wales - 102
8. North East - 73

Top music download regions

1. Wales
2. Scotland
3. South East
4. Midlands
5. North West
6. North East
7. South West
8. London

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