Studio Brief 2: Final 20 statistics

1. CD sales have dropped 50% from their peak in 2000.
2. Vinyl records were most popular between 1950 and 1990.
3. Sales of traditional album formats rose by more than five percent in 2009.
4. CD sales have fallen off by a fifth during the same time frame.
5. Cassette album sales reached 3,823 sold in the UK in 2012.
6. Michael Jackson's Thriller is the best selling album of all time, with an estimate of 65 million sales.
7. 188.6m singles were sold in 2012.
8. This was a rise of six percent from the previous year.
9. 99.6 % of these were digital sales.
10. The sales of albums in the UK fell 10%
11. Each year sales of albums on CDs fall 19.5%
12. 125,000 iPods had been sold by September 2001.
13. 15 million iPods had been sold by March 2005.
14. 350 million iPods had been sold by September 2012.

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/68040

http://www.purplerevolver.com/bulletin/the-method/12342-vinyl-and-cassette-sales-soar-as-digital-drops.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette

http://ipod.about.com/od/glossary/a/how-apple-changed-music.htm

These 20 statistics that I gathered were collected from the websites above. The facts fit into categories of:

• Audio formats
• Albums and statistics
• iPods
• Survey