The line graph illustrates the changes in total sales of music by three method
between 2011 and 2018.
Figures of downloads and streams experienced increase at the beginning of the
given period. In 2011, downloads sales rose moderately from 35 percent to its peak
at around 43 percent in 2014, while at the same time, sales of streams considerably
climbed from a tiny fraction of 5 percent to approximately 15 percent. Dissimilarly,
there was a sharp drop in sales of CDs, from over a half to nearly a third.
From 2014, there were major shifts in sales. Whilst streams grew significantly to
just over two-fifths of total percentage, downloads and CDs happened to decrease.
At the end of the period, there was a slight fall to a precise one-third in downloads
and a dramatic decline to around a quarter in CDs.
Overall, streams sales appeared to rise throughout the time while CDs fell.
Category of downloads also experienced rise but since 2014, no growth was
captured.