Most Popular Music Formats 1972 - 2022

If I buy a music... that's CD or Bandcamp. because Vinyl is expensive af (It's like a 40 bucks! I'm not rich lol). also I use digital music player app like musicbee a lot too

I need yall to understand with downloading start rising it was with ZERO doubt because of Soulja Boy.

I still buy CDs, have since 1995. Call me old school.

Vinyl never died and revived during covid19 homestay since most music lovers started this hobby again which they had left during 80s.

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I still only buy music on CDs

Vinyl Gang

Cassettes are making a comeback now tho. You will pay more for an album 2nd hand on cassette now than on CD. Im still a CD guy, so now im part of the minority. Ive got a small vinyl collection but only a small one, where as i have boxes filled up in my attic of CD's.

CD's are actually making a comeback!

Music video is houldn't not be part of the format war. You do not sit there listening to a music video. Same goes for ringtones

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CD'ler 1999'dan sonra zirve yapmaya başladı. Bu veriler biraz tutarsız gözüküyor

streaming

Why is MiniDisc and DAT missing in this?

Streaming service sucks.

my beloved minidisc didn't make the cut

Wuw tapes really were popular. That I never knew. It’s funny every time a new format comes along vinyl comes powering back. I’m still surprised how CDs got so slaughtered. Streaming vs downloads. Just shows how worthless many people think music is. To me vinyl will always be the top.

I still use downloads (MP4's) and put it on thumb drives for my motorcycle and cars. I had over 350 CD's back in 2002 and I still have most of them but they are collecting dust.

Vinyl is king in audio quality with the right setup,
It uses analog, the purest form of true audio. Digital compresses the audio quality not giving the real recording from the studio.

Interesting how vinyl made a comeback after all those years

Vinyl never really died

i wonder if the tumblr boom in 2014 and then the growing bedroom pop/new indie trend during the second half of the 2010’s influenced the vinyl resurgence

How is vinyl more popular than CD?

I'm somewhat surprised that music videos score so low. I'm all about my music videos. If I'm driving I listen to the radio but another thing I'm into the 80s and have many many videos from then

Digital Download and CD is always my favourite

am I the only one left that buys CDs and rips them to FLAC?

In Europe, we have never heard of "8-Track".

I can't belive I'm one of those 0.02% who mostly watch music videos.

now I understood why some new artist albums are released on vinyls not on cds anymore

I'm still downloading music

I still prefer my music on CD. I must be old and set in my ways.

Now in 2022 i use streaming, cassettes and vinyl
(I'm 16)

Good video
Question: where did you obtain the data??

Also weird that only 0.02% of people listen to music videos

woah vinyl is much larger than I thought it would be

I bought my first Hi-fi and Bon Jovi New Jersey CD in 1989!

streaming is okay but I still prefer to actually have the music

No mention of minidisc 🤔

I guess the data is much harder to get but would be way cooler to see the actual formats that users are listening to rather than the revenue

I mostly hear music with videos and wow what a low percentage.

Streaming most of the music today but love a good coletion so i am buying some good vinyls of the best artist out there. :)

nice, I'm one of 0% people who mainly used cassettes until 2017 :D

And that explains why Netflix stock was one of the best performing stocks over the last decade (partly due to hype from Wall street as well)!!

You always know when someone didn’t grow up with records because they refer to it as vinyl. No one called it vinyl in the 80s it was referred to as that until recently. It was always “records”. That is why no one ever received a gold vinyl lol

It’s odd that is says digital downloads didn’t happen till like 2004 or 2005 yet most of us in college were using Napster in the late 90s and had MP3 players. The iPod came out way before this graph claims digital music was available. I mean heck in 1993 or 1994 Aerosmith put a song out as a digital download if you bought the cd.

I love the moment where vinyl strikes back :)

Instead of having a bunch of 0% media on there you could have put stuff like mini-disc on there

I had no idea CDs were so old! I remember being very excited to have a boom box with a CD player in the mid-90s!

This cant be true.
Since 2010 i havent seen someone using cd because it eas dead since 2005.
And how is vinyl more popular than digital downloads. When you go somewhere without i-net or w-lan you download your songs before. I dont believe that today there are twice as mutch music enthusiast hipstars than people downloading mp3s.

Wow I knew vinyl had experienced a resurgence but holy shit! I still have all my cassettes, in their cassette drawers.