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Vinyl to Ipods

By huned on Jan 17, 2007
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Time Scale	Data Aggregation
Yearly Quarterly Monthly	Average High Low Total Count Distinct None

Year	Year	iPods Sold	Year	vinyl	cassettes	cds

Jan 2007	Jan 2007	41,430,000	2007
Jan 2006	Jan 2006	39,409,000	2006
Jan 1979	Jan 1979		1979	318,300,000	82,800,000	0
Jan 1976	Jan 1976		1976	273,000,000	21,800,000	0
Jan 1981	Jan 1981		1981	295,200,000	137,000,000	0
Jan 1978	Jan 1978		1978	341,300,000	61,300,000	0
Jan 1975	Jan 1975		1975	257,000,000	16,200,000	0
Jan 1980	Jan 1980		1980	322,800,000	110,200,000	0
Jan 1977	Jan 1977		1977	344,000,000	36,900,000	0
Jan 1982	Jan 1982		1982	243,900,000	182,300,000	0
Jan 1983	Jan 1983		1983	209,600,000	236,800,000	800,000
Jan 1984	Jan 1984		1984	204,600,000	332,000,000	5,800,000
Jan 1985	Jan 1985		1985	167,000,000	339,100,000	22,600,000
Jan 1986	Jan 1986		1986	125,200,000	344,500,000	53,000,000
Jan 1987	Jan 1987		1987	107,000,000	410,000,000	102,100,000
Jan 1988	Jan 1988		1988	72,400,000	450,100,000	149,700,000
Jan 1989	Jan 1989		1989	34,600,000	446,200,000	207,200,000
Jan 1990	Jan 1990		1990	11,700,000	442,200,000	286,500,000
Jan 1991	Jan 1991		1991	4,800,000	360,100,000	333,300,000
Jan 1992	Jan 1992		1992	2,300,000	366,400,000	407,500,000
Jan 1993	Jan 1993		1993	1,200,000	339,500,000	495,400,000
Jan 1994	Jan 1994		1994	1,900,000	345,400,000	662,100,000
Jan 2005	Jan 2005	22,497,000	2005	1,000,000	2,500,000	705,400,000
Jan 1995	Jan 1995		1995	2,200,000	272,600,000	722,900,000
Jan 2003	Jan 2003	937,000	2003	1,500,000	17,200,000	746,000,000
Jan 1997	Jan 1997		1997	2,700,000	172,600,000	753,100,000
Jan 2004	Jan 2004	4,416,000	2004	1,400,000	5,200,000	767,000,000
Jan 1996	Jan 1996		1996	2,900,000	225,300,000	778,900,000
Jan 1998	Jan 1998		1998	3,400,000	158,500,000	847,000,000
Jan 2001	Jan 2001		2001	2,300,000	45,000,000	881,900,000
Jan 2002	Jan 2002	376,000	2002	1,700,000	31,100,000	903,300,000
Jan 1999	Jan 1999		1999	2,900,000	123,600,000	938,900,000
Jan 2000	Jan 2000		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. —huned

Comments (6)

Chris G.

Chris G. says

Awesome graph!

posted over 3 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 3 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 over 2 years ago