USA Music sales by format over the years

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Pretty interesting analysis of music sales per media format over the years in the US. Pity they used this type of graph as it is difficult to read accurate numbers.

1977 to 1985 vinyl was king
1985 to around 1990 cassette was on top
Looks like around 2010 only that non physical media started to outperform cd.



Here is the actual analysis in Tableau. Makes analysis easier.
https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/
 
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