Nice Animated Graphic on Music Sales by Category

[Capitol C]

I came across a pretty way of presenting how music has sold by format, going back to 1973.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/anim...ded-music-sales-by-format-share-1973-to-2022/

 

[swechsler]

Nice. "Synchronization" is basically licensing music for movies, TV and other media.

 

[wmgwizard]

Well that was fun.......

 

[Bob in WI]

Thanks for posting.
Could do the same thing (I suppose) w playback technologies (TTs, 8 track players (you could listen to your music IN THE CAR!!!), etc) altho the data would take some research to uncover.
I question the "creative destruction" bit in the the analysis following the graphic but thats off topic.
Funny how fast consumer choices change.
Obvious thought is ' whats next?'

 

[Capitol C]

Thanks for posting.
Could do the same thing (I suppose) w playback technologies (TTs, 8 track players (you could listen to your music IN THE CAR!!!), etc) altho the data would take some research to uncover.
I question the "creative destruction" bit in the the analysis following the graphic but thats off topic.
Funny how fast consumer choices change.
Obvious thought is ' whats next?'

I'm not sure what you meant by questioning the creative destruction bit, but perhaps I can clarify the term. I believe that economists use the term to mean one idea drives out another, not making a judgement about the merits of one or the other. The decline and subsequent increase of vinyl is an interesting example, if it were all about keeping the "best" technology winning, that would not happen. (Note that I'm avoiding any preference here, that issue has been debated in many other places!)

I also just noticed that the the graphic is mentioned in at least one other thread, https://audiokarma.org/forums/index...active-graphic-display-of-percentages.892405/.

 

[Bob in WI]

I'm not sure what you meant by questioning the creative destruction bit, but perhaps I can clarify the term. I believe that economists use the term to mean one idea drives out another, not making a judgement about the merits of one or the other. The decline and subsequent increase of vinyl is an interesting example, if it were all about keeping the "best" technology winning, that would not happen. (Note that I'm avoiding any preference here, that issue has been debated in many other places!)

I also just noticed that the the graphic is mentioned in at least one other thread, https://audiokarma.org/forums/index...active-graphic-display-of-percentages.892405/.

I hadn't heard obsolescence called creative destruction before - certainly a more dramatic turn of phrase.
Agree that the LP resurgence kind of breaks the pattern.