This dataset is the result of a project creating a detailed description of the trends and cross-national differences in national cultural consumption. It focuses on the consumption of domestic and foreign music, films and literature and its relation with contextual country conditions. Country's globalization level, EU membership, nationalistic climate, national legislation, and supply are used to explain the popularity of domestic cultural products and the differences between countries.

The aim of the project is examining the consumption of national cultural goods, and its cross-EU sharing in times of further EU integration and intra and extra-EU migration. Trends within countries, and differences between countries in regional, national, European and American consumed cultural goods are studied from a macro-level perspective. Theories from both economics and sociology are used to explain trends and differences.

The data of this project is divided over three datasets. This dataset contains the data concerning domestic and foreign music. For the datasets concerning film and literature see the links under ‘relation’.