The music preferences of teenagers, as short-term evaluations of liking, are a complex phenomenon marked with numerous reasons and motives when choosing certain music, and they expand from regulating emotions and mood stabilizers, music characteristics, to forming one's social acceptance. The biggest impact when it comes to the preferences of elementary school students, comes from their peers and the mass media, thus it is understandable the dominant direction of preferences towards a large variety of popular music. Among the examples of popular music, for which their affinity and interest has been expressed, one can find the most various examples from the world popular music, which points to language, cultural, tonal, temporal and quality-like openness. The music openness of teenagers is not used enough in Music study, which is almost exclusively directed at introducing and acquiring West European music knowledge, based on music as an art, and the development of music preferences towards that type of music. This work represents the research of music preferences by applying the estimation scale for researching the preferences of selected music pieces of classical music and world music, on a sample of students from the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh and the eighth grade of elementary school. From the gathered results, it has been established that teenagers are open towards music examples from different music of the world, which indicated the conclusion how in today's time, when modern society is getting more culturally diverse and richer with ever day, a need for implementing culturally various teaching contents of music traditions of worldly cultures is needed more than ever.