Swivel Business

From the 8-Track to the Mp3

By seema on Jan 04, 2007
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Time Scale	Data Aggregation
Yearly	Average High Low Total Count Distinct None

Year	vinyl	cassettes	cds

1980	322,800,000	110,200,000	0
1977	344,000,000	36,900,000	0
1981	295,200,000	137,000,000	0
1978	341,300,000	61,300,000	0
1975	257,000,000	16,200,000	0
1982	243,900,000	182,300,000	0
1979	318,300,000	82,800,000	0
1976	273,000,000	21,800,000	0
1983	209,600,000	236,800,000	800,000
1984	204,600,000	332,000,000	5,800,000
1985	167,000,000	339,100,000	22,600,000
1986	125,200,000	344,500,000	53,000,000
1987	107,000,000	410,000,000	102,100,000
1988	72,400,000	450,100,000	149,700,000
1989	34,600,000	446,200,000	207,200,000
1990	11,700,000	442,200,000	286,500,000
1991	4,800,000	360,100,000	333,300,000
1992	2,300,000	366,400,000	407,500,000
1993	1,200,000	339,500,000	495,400,000
1994	1,900,000	345,400,000	662,100,000
2005	1,000,000	2,500,000	705,400,000
1995	2,200,000	272,600,000	722,900,000
2003	1,500,000	17,200,000	746,000,000
1997	2,700,000	172,600,000	753,100,000
2004	1,400,000	5,200,000	767,000,000
1996	2,900,000	225,300,000	778,900,000
1998	3,400,000	158,500,000	847,000,000
2001	2,300,000	45,000,000	881,900,000
2002	1,700,000	31,100,000	903,300,000
1999	2,900,000	123,600,000	938,900,000
2000	2,200,000	76,000,000	942,500,000
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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. —seema