Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Popular music Audience in Portugal

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Popular music in Portugal — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Popular music has an estimated audience of 2,687,948 people in Portugal.

The average Popular music fan in Portugal is 42.0 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Lisbon District.

The audience is concentrated in Lisbon District, Porto District, Setúbal District.

Top brand affinities include Electronic music, BP, Blues music, with strongest over-indexing on Electronic music (1.57× the country average).

Demographically, the Popular music audience skews balanced with an average age of 42.0, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Community Orientation, Pet Ownership.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 20 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical Popular music fan in Portugal is balanced, around 42.0 years old, with strong Community Orientation tendencies and a notable affinity for Electronic music.

Category: Music & Radio · Type: Topic · Subtype: Musical genre

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-13.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Popular music profile in Portugal.

Audience size
2.7M
in Portugal
Gender
54.7%
45.3% male
Age
42.0
average years
Country rank
#253
Topic in Portugal
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-18%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Popular music fans

54.7% are female, 45.3% are male, average age 42.0.

Fig. 02

Gender split

54.7%
Female
45.3%
Male
Demographic split for Popular music audience in Portugal
MetricValue
Female54.7%
Male45.3%
Average age42.0
Estimated audience size2,687,948
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 42.0
average years
Age distribution of the Popular music audience in Portugal
Age bracketShare%
16-1916%
20-2916%
30-3917%
40-4923%
50+28%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.7%

of the worldwide Popular music audience comes from Portugal.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Popular music
CountryShare
United States20.9%
Japan6.5%
China6.1%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Portugal average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Popular music audience in Portugal is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Popular music fans by region: top regions in Portugal
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Bragança District~30K1.10×
02Portalegre District~30K1.09×
03Guarda District~40K1.08×
04Beja District~50K1.06×
05Vila Real District~50K1.04×
06Évora District~50K1.03×
07Castelo Branco District~50K1.02×
08Azores~70K0.99×
09Viana do Castelo District~70K0.99×
10Viseu District~90K0.98×
11Madeira~80K0.97×
12Coimbra District~100K0.96×
13Leiria District~100K0.95×
14Setúbal District~300K0.94×
15Aveiro District~200K0.93×
16Faro District~200K0.93×
17Braga District~200K0.92×
18Porto District~500K0.83×
19Santarém District~100K0.83×
20Lisbon District~700K0.81×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Popular music audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Popular music audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01NigeriaTravel & Leisure2.17×
02Local newsNews1.95×
03DisneylandTravel & Leisure1.95×
04GraffitiArts & Culture1.95×
05BPCars & Mobility1.74×
06MascaraBeauty & Wellness1.74×
07HotmartShopping1.69×
08PoodlePets & Animals1.66×
09Blues musicMusic & Radio1.64×
10PianoMusic & Radio1.63×
11Facial hairBeauty & Wellness1.63×
12Shih TzuPets & Animals1.62×
13Viral videoInternet & Social Media1.61×
14First-person shooter gamesGames1.59×
15SteamGames1.59×
16Electronic musicMusic & Radio1.57×
17JD SportsShopping1.57×
18Musical theatreMovies & TV1.56×
19Golden RetrieverPets & Animals1.54×
20Labrador RetrieverPets & Animals1.51×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Popular music audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Popular music audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Community OrientationOPEN1.23×
Pet OwnershipJOY1.19×
IndulgenceJOY1.14×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Popular music audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM0.90×
TravellingTHRILL0.93×
IndividualismJOY0.95×
1.00× baseline
Section 06

Frequently asked questions

01

How many fans does Popular music have in Portugal?

Popular music has an estimated audience of 2,687,948 people in Portugal, concentrated in Lisbon District and Porto District.

02

What is the gender split and age of Popular music fans?

54.7% of Popular music fans are female, 45.3% are male, with an average age of 42.0 years.

03

Which brands do Popular music fans like most?

Popular music fans show strongest brand affinity for Electronic music (1.57×), BP (1.74×), and Blues music (1.64×) over the country average.

04

Where do Popular music fans live in Portugal?

Popular music fans in Portugal are most concentrated in Lisbon District (reach ~700K), Porto District (reach ~500K), and Setúbal District (reach ~300K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.

05

What other brands do Popular music fans also like?

Beyond Popular music itself, the audience over-indexes on BP (1.74×), Blues music (1.64×), Musical theatre (1.56×), and First-person shooter games (1.59×) compared to the Portugal average.

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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Portugal who actively search for Popular music. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Portugal. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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