“Pop culture is inspiring Britons of all ages to rediscover the joy of music”: New study names the electric guitar as the UK’s most popular instrument of 2024 – and it’s because of a Netflix show from 2 years ago

A study conducted by two music gear specialists has named the electric guitar as the UK’s most popular instrument of 2024 – and has ascribed credit to a Netflix TV show from two years ago for the results.

Gear4Music and Moombix (via Daily Mail) both crunched the numbers from the past 12 months in an effort to discover which instrument had proven to be the biggest seller of the year, and the electric guitar came out on top.

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