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Music Genres Over Time

By Devon on Jul 05, 2007
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Time Scale	Data Aggregation
Yearly	Average High Low Total Count Distinct None

Year	GENRE: Rock	GENRE: Rap/Hip-hop	GENRE: R&B/Urban	GENRE: Country	GENRE: Pop	GENRE: Religious	GENRE: Classical	GENRE: Jazz	GENRE: Soundtracks	GENRE: Oldies	GENRE: Other


2004	23.9%	12.1%	11.3%	13.0%	10.0%	6.0%	2.0%	2.7%	1.1%	1.4%	8.9%
2001	24.4%	11.4%	10.6%	10.5%	12.1%	6.7%	3.2%	3.4%	1.4%	0.8%	7.9%
2002	24.7%	13.8%	11.2%	10.7%	9.0%	6.7%	3.1%	3.2%	1.1%	0.9%	8.1%
2000	24.8%	12.9%	9.7%	10.7%	11.0%	4.8%	2.7%	2.9%	0.7%	0.9%	8.3%
1999	25.2%	10.8%	10.5%	10.8%	10.3%	5.1%	3.5%	3.0%	0.8%	0.7%	9.1%
2003	25.2%	13.3%	10.6%	10.4%	8.9%	5.8%	3.0%	2.9%	1.4%	1.3%	7.6%
1998	25.7%	9.7%	12.8%	14.1%	10.0%	6.3%	3.3%	1.9%	1.7%	0.7%	7.9%
1993	30.2%	18.7%	9.2%	10.6%	11.9%	3.2%	3.3%	3.1%	0.7%	1.0%	4.6%
2005	31.5%	13.3%	10.2%	12.5%	8.1%	5.3%	2.4%	1.8%	0.9%	1.1%	8.5%
1992	31.6%	17.4%	8.6%	9.8%	11.5%	2.8%	3.7%	3.8%	0.7%	0.8%	5.4%
1997	32.5%	10.1%	11.2%	14.4%	9.4%	4.5%	2.8%	2.8%	1.2%	0.8%	5.7%
1996	32.6%	14.7%	8.9%	12.1%	9.3%	4.3%	3.4%	3.3%	0.8%	0.8%	5.2%
1995	33.5%	16.7%	6.7%	11.3%	10.1%	3.1%	2.9%	3.0%	0.9%	1.0%	7.0%
2006	34.0%	11.4%	11.0%	13.0%	7.1%	5.5%	1.9%	2.0%	0.8%	1.1%	7.3%
1991	34.8%	12.8%	10.0%	9.9%	12.1%	3.8%	3.2%	4.0%	0.7%	1.0%	4.2%
1994	35.1%	16.3%	7.9%	9.6%	10.3%	3.3%	3.7%	3.0%	1.0%	0.8%	5.3%
1990	36.1%	9.6%	8.5%	11.6%	13.7%	2.5%	3.1%	4.8%	0.8%	0.8%	5.6%
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Sources: RIAA (http://76.74.24.142/E795D60...)

Music has played a large part in human society for over 4000 years. Today, due to varying cultures and geographical regions, many different types of music exist, separated loosely into genres. According to Peter van der Merwe, a musical genre is "a category of pieces of music that share a certain style or 'basic musical language.' " Ever since Rock and Roll evolved in the 1940's from Blues and Country music, it has remained America's number one choice in musical style. Music is sold in many different formats and enjoyed by people of all ages. —Devon

Comments (3)

Natalie

Natalie says

It's interesting to see that rap/hip hop sales dropped off in the late 90s, while rock & roll continuously remains the most popular genre. It would be cool to look at big events or celebrities (Tupac's death, Britney Spears, Madonna's reinventions) to see how it affected that genres music sales.

posted about 1 year ago

Mark Derthick says

I've developed a music visualization that shows relationships among genre, time, rating, and artist at http://cityscape.inf.cs.cmu...
You can only look at the popularity over time of one genre at a time, but you can also see it's relationships to all the other attributes. It highlights statistically significant correlations.

posted about 1 year ago

Ironmaidenismymomma

Ironmaidenismymomma says

I created and developed all music and I read your graph and thought what a load. This is the biggest waste of my time since I read that pie graph about procrastination

posted about 1 year ago