Music: entertainment media with millions of benefits for physical performance

We cannot deny that besides having a function as an entertainment, music also has influences to its listeners. Music existence has been there and developed since thousands years ago, and in every development, Music can perform beautiful tones and meaningful messages for its listeners. Music can take the listeners to their world that will give significant influences in their lives. Music can influence the minds and brains; therefore, it can produce health by listening music. This research aims to find out the influence that we can get from listening to music, digging the information related to the benefits of music, and analyzing how music influences its listeners. The method used in this research is the quantitative approach by using the survey and questionnaire methods. The conclusion that the researcher can explain in this research is that music is not only entertainment media but music can also send the listeners’ tiredness away; furthermore music brings the positive effects to its listeners. The effects that the listeners often feel are: that music can influence someone’s cognitive development which covers someone’s intelligence level until someone’s memory and also someone’s health that can reduce the blood pressure, reduce the anxiety levels, stress and depression.