“…For a long time, sound and music have been recognised as important means for communication in marketing under the label of sonic branding (Gustafsson, 2015), audio branding (Bronner & Hirt, 2009), or sound branding (Steiner, 2014). The approved ability of music and sound to affect listeners emotionally (Juslin & Västfjäll, 2008;North & Hargreaves, 2008) and convey socio-cultural meaning and values (Stone, 2016;Tagg, 2013) is the main reason why marketing practitioners increasingly rely on music as a powerful channel for brand communication (Jackson, 2003;Kilian, 2009). Focusing specifically on music as a central means for communicating brand identity, we will only use the term music branding (Müllensiefen & Baker, 2015) throughout this work.…”