How We’ve Paid for Music from 1983 to Today, in one gif

Oct 13 2014

Check out this fascinating graphic that shows the different ways we have consumed recorded music in the last 30 years. Here is an excerpt from the description:

What’s most interesting about this graphic is that it shows just how diverse music consumption is in 2013. In 1983, music consumption was a 50/50 split between vinyl and cassettes. Ten years later, CDs cornered 94 percent of the market. But today, nothing has 50 percent of the market. People have more ways to buy music now than ever before.

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Stephen Danyew

Steve Danyew is a composer, saxophonist, teacher, and arts administrator based in Rochester, NY. Danyew composes works for chamber ensembles, large instrumental ensembles, choirs and more, and currently serves as Managing Editor of Polyphonic.org. His music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the Miami Herald, and has been praised as possessing “sensitivity, skill and tremendous sophistication” by the Kansas City Independent. Steve received a B.M. cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and holds an M.M. in Composition and Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music.

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