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Vinyl to Ipods

By huned on Jan 17, 2007
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Type	Vertical Scale	Time Scale	Data Aggregation
Bar Horizontal Bar Scatter Line Other Views Table	Absolute Relative to Average Relative to Range	Yearly Quarterly Monthly	Average High Low Total Count Distinct None

Sources: <a href="http://www.worldalmanac.com...">World Almanac 2007</a>, <a href="www.riaa.com">RIAA</a>

Music sales in the United States, showing the number of units shipped. Now even CD sales are dropping. Perhaps being replaced by mp3 downloads (there is not yet enough data at the source to display the mp3 data)? This graph was made by c.a.joyce. —huned

Comments (6)

Chris G.

Chris G. says

Awesome graph!

posted over 2 years ago

huned

huned says

thanks. i actually made a number of notes on this one at e-huned.com/2007/01/17/technology-obsolescence-curves-are-cool/

posted over 2 years ago

Adelino de Almeida says

This seems like another manifestation of the 36% rule, I've made a few notes about this: http://adelino.typepad.com/...

posted over 2 years ago

huned

huned says

just for clarification, the drop off of ipods at the end of the graph is due to incomplete data, not lagging ipod sales...

posted over 2 years ago

Anonymous says

This one is clearer with the relative values. Each of the new media begins its upswing before the decline of the previous media with the exception of iPods. The claim by the music industry that file sharing is reducing sales isn't supported by this graph assuming that digital music basically starts at the same time as the iPod. Is it participating in the decline of CD sales after the start of the decline. Maybe. A reduction in the number of replacement sales is probably more likely the reason for the beginning of the decline.

posted over 2 years ago

derick says

Anon - digital music probably led ipods by several years. To do this properly you'd need to graph turntables vs. cassette decks vs. cd players vs. ipods. Otherwise it's apples and oranges.

posted about 1 year ago