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Originally Posted by NoVi  The graph is pretty bad by the way: - it would be interesting to see data in a longer series from before 1999, something tells me that 1999 was an all time high for the record industry
- the 6 billion from 2009 is presented as if sales have become close to 0
- if you study the graph well you actually see that the sales are holding up pretty well until 2005-2006 (they didn't bother to propely show us the years on the x-axis), after that there is a sharp decline (economic crisis, anyone?)
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Here is a graph by unit sales, not by dollars, which covers 1975 to 2005. Actually it's probably worse by dollars because the sales price of CDs in 1985 dollars is in and of itself 2.5 times lower now because the price hasn't gone up while inflation has, and the actual prices have come down a lot.
Sales did not continue to do well. If you look, it was going up rapidly and had been for a long time. Just going flat would have been a big drop. To have turned around suddenly was a massive drop.
Swivel | U.S. Music Sales, 1975-2005: Vinyl, cassettes, and CDs
Read my post from earlier in this thread. I'm not going to repeat it all again here.