Country music fans have highest suicide rate

21 January 2008 in Human Nature, Music, Notes by Stilgherrian | 7 comments

US research shows that country music fans have the highest suicide rate. “The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability.” Hat tip to The Road to Surfdom.

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  1. Richard’s avatar

    Richard on 22 January 2008 at 9:12 am

    I’m reminded of an old joke: If you play country songs backwards they’re much happier — you get your wife back, your house back, your job back, you quit drinking…

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  2. Stilgherrian’s avatar

    Stilgherrian on 22 January 2008 at 9:30 am

    And apparently, the slower the music they play at the bar, the more people drink.

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  3. shank’s avatar

    shank on 06 November 2009 at 2:48 am

    The suicide rate could very well have increased due to the people who ARE NOT country music fans, killing themselves to end the torture. After all, the article said the study was in metropolitan areas, not rural.

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  4. Stilgherrian’s avatar

    Stilgherrian on 06 November 2009 at 6:21 am

    @shank: Oh well spotted, thank you!

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  5. chuck’s avatar

    chuck on 24 February 2010 at 2:12 am

    i love this statistic and hate country music

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    zach on 03 March 2010 at 3:49 am

    The only good country song to me is the devil went down to georgia

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    Michael on 03 March 2010 at 3:52 am

    You know I dont agree I LOVE country and I never tried to commit suicide

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