The way we listen to music has transformed dramatically over the past five decades, and so has the industry’s revenue model. 🎸💰 This data story traces the evolution of music formats – from vinyl and cassettes to CDs, digital downloads, and streaming – revealing how each shift reshaped the industry.
Data source: **Recording Industry Association of America®**Â
Data prep: Google Sheets
Visualization tool: Vizzu
Explore our data story at your own pace at vizzu dot io/showcase
If you already have the images why wouldn’t you just upload them too? Reddits video player is ridiculously horrible and it’s even worse for graphs. And now try to tell a mobile user that obviously uses Reddit in portrait mode to read anything
r/vinyl would love this.
Also, this puts into perspective that even though vinyl has overtaken CDs in sales and revenue, vinyls never reached the peak CDs did. It’s not a case of vinyl becoming increasingly popular, it’s just that CDs went down in popularity.
I still like collecting vinyls though.
this format is awful, images please
Actually enjoyed the video format but wish it was twice as slow…kept having to pause.
If it’s going to be motion, stick to one format and show us the annual movement. Or just give us several images.
I thought this was a very interesting and engaging representation of data. Quite often the data here isn’t Beautiful, but this was both clear to understand and engaging, I watched the whole thing instead of scrolling past.
Thanks! Much more interesting than the break down of a random person’s salary and expenditure which I have to skim over several times each day.
With how relatively niche vinyl is it’s pretty mad how much of a share of total revenue it generatores today.
Back in the day (way back in 90s) if a song was on an advertisement it was considered selling out. It was always older songs in the ads too, not newly released stuff. Now it seems like getting your music on an ad is the goal. I ain’t mad at artists, cause they gotta make money somehow, but it really blows.
Not a single gay was contacted in the conducting of this data
So it peaked when Napster was still free.
I thought the visualization was good but then I saw the posters account and realized this was a sneaky ad for their app
![[OC] From Vinyl to Streaming: 50 Years of Music Revenue](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/s9qlyzkb3pje1-1920x1024.gif)
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The way we listen to music has transformed dramatically over the past five decades, and so has the industry’s revenue model. 🎸💰 This data story traces the evolution of music formats – from vinyl and cassettes to CDs, digital downloads, and streaming – revealing how each shift reshaped the industry.
Data source: **Recording Industry Association of America®**Â
Data prep: Google Sheets
Visualization tool: Vizzu
Explore our data story at your own pace at vizzu dot io/showcase
If you already have the images why wouldn’t you just upload them too? Reddits video player is ridiculously horrible and it’s even worse for graphs. And now try to tell a mobile user that obviously uses Reddit in portrait mode to read anything
r/vinyl would love this.
Also, this puts into perspective that even though vinyl has overtaken CDs in sales and revenue, vinyls never reached the peak CDs did. It’s not a case of vinyl becoming increasingly popular, it’s just that CDs went down in popularity.
I still like collecting vinyls though.
this format is awful, images please
Actually enjoyed the video format but wish it was twice as slow…kept having to pause.
If it’s going to be motion, stick to one format and show us the annual movement. Or just give us several images.
I thought this was a very interesting and engaging representation of data. Quite often the data here isn’t Beautiful, but this was both clear to understand and engaging, I watched the whole thing instead of scrolling past.
Thanks! Much more interesting than the break down of a random person’s salary and expenditure which I have to skim over several times each day.
With how relatively niche vinyl is it’s pretty mad how much of a share of total revenue it generatores today.
Back in the day (way back in 90s) if a song was on an advertisement it was considered selling out. It was always older songs in the ads too, not newly released stuff. Now it seems like getting your music on an ad is the goal. I ain’t mad at artists, cause they gotta make money somehow, but it really blows.
Not a single gay was contacted in the conducting of this data
So it peaked when Napster was still free.
I thought the visualization was good but then I saw the posters account and realized this was a sneaky ad for their app
Pictures > video
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