The three pie charts describes the proportion of money spent on music for various years in Northern Ireland. Music Lovers preferred to enjoy music through listening to CDs, attending concerts, downloading digitally and through other sources. These pictorial diagrams clearly depicted the change in trend from CDs to Digital downloads on the following years: 2005, 2008 and 2011. In 2005, CDs were considered to be the most popularly sold music source contributing 61% of sales, while this percentage had gradually reduced to 41% within next 3 years (2008) and decreased furthermore to 26% in 2011. Across the same three-year period, a spike in number of people purchasing music through digital downloads has been increased drastically from 6% (2005) to 25% (2008), and increased to 43% in 2011. And the digital sources became the highest contributor of music expenditure by 2011. Additionally, concerts became the second significant way of money of distribution but the values went down from 31% to 23% in 2005 and marked up to 28% back in 2011. Interestingly, the total amount spent on other sources are constant sharing less than 2% to 3% in all these three years. In conclusion, these pie pictograms clearly showed the gradual fall down of the CD sales and the growth of digital music content sales.
The three pie charts
describes
the proportion of money spent on
music
for various years in Northern Ireland.
Music
Lovers preferred to enjoy
music
through listening to
CDs
, attending concerts, downloading
digitally
and through other
sources
. These pictorial diagrams
clearly
depicted the
change
in trend from
CDs
to Digital downloads on the following years: 2005, 2008 and 2011. In 2005,
CDs
were considered
to be the most
popularly
sold
music
source
contributing 61% of sales, while this percentage had
gradually
reduced
to 41% within
next
3 years (2008) and decreased
furthermore
to 26% in 2011. Across the same three-year period, a spike in number of
people
purchasing
music
through digital downloads has
been increased
drastically
from 6% (2005) to 25% (2008), and increased to 43% in 2011. And the digital
sources
became the highest contributor of
music
expenditure by 2011.
Additionally
, concerts became the second significant way of money of distribution
but
the values went down from 31% to 23% in 2005 and marked up to 28% back in 2011.
Interestingly
, the total amount spent on other
sources
are constant sharing less than 2% to 3% in all these three years.
In conclusion
, these pie pictograms
clearly
showed
the gradual fall down of the CD sales and the growth of digital
music
content sales.