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The line graph illustrates the changes in music sales by streams, downloads and CDs purchased from 2011 to 2018. The number of sales is presented in percentages.

Overall, CDs sales considerably fell over the given period, while the number of streams sales has gone up. The sales of downloads slightly fluctuated but remained almost stably during the period.

In 2011, the majority of music listeners preferred to buy CDs, approximately 55% of them. During the given period CDs sales fell down significantly and in 2018 it was only about 25%. On the contrary, the percentages of streams sales went up from 2011 to 2018, starting only from 5% and increasing to slightly more than 40% in 2018.

In 2011 around 35% of customers preferred to buy downloads. The sales reached a peak at slightly less than 44% in 2014 and went down gradually to the minimum point of around 25%, however, the percentage of downloads sales remained stable compared to streams and CDs purchased.
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The line graph illustrates the changes of total music sales by streams, downloads and CDs purchased on the market from 2011 to 2018. The sales are measured in percentages.

Overall, the number of downloads and physical sales declined over the period, when streams became extremely popular. CDs purchased and streams had a constant drop and growth respectively over the 8 years, while sales of downloads vacillated a bit and did not change so sharply.

In 2011 the Cds purchased were the most preferable for consumers and reached more than 55% of music sales. But the popularity of physical purchases decreased dramatically over the span and the quantity of their sales dropped to 25%. In contrast, the streams had a steady growth of demand over the 8 years and in 2018 hit a high of over 40%.

The number of downloads during the period fluctuated. Over the first 4 years the demand of this product rose gradually and total sales of downloads jumped from 35% to approximately 45%. However, the popularity of this product declined during the next 4 years and sales fell to 30% that only 5% lower than at the beginning.

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The graph shows the number of music sales over a period from 2011 to 2018. Sales are divided by the method and presented in percentage.

Overall, percentage of both Downloads and CDs purchased sales finished the period lower than they started after steady falling. At the same time number of buyers using Streams method rose significantly over a span and reached its highest point in 2018.

According to the total music sales graph, the sales by Downloads started at the point of approximately 35 percent but ended with the quantity of 30. During the full time CDs purchased music percentage showed a steady decline from the highest point of above 50 percent till about 25 and presented lowest sales of this type. While the downward trend of CDs sales, Downloads ones reached its top in 2014. Despite this fact, it rebounded back down and got lower position finally.

Streams were the most popular way of music selling by the end of 8 year period in comparison with other methods. Started nearly from zero level, sales continued increasing gradually all the time and peaked above 40 percent level eventually.

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The graph illustrates music sales by different methods: streams, digital downloads and CD purchases. The data was gathered from years 2011 to 2018.

Overall, CD sales and downloads have experienced a downfall while streaming music was steadily rising, taking the winning position during mid-2016. The amount of downloads stayed relatively the same, only slightly variating from original 35 percent occupation of the market to 40 percent in mid-2013 and falling to 30 percent in 2018.

Unlike streaming and CD sales, digital downloads were not steadily increasing or declining, they was both. Digital downloads were on the rise from 2011 to mid-2013 when they reached their peak and started to fall as steadily as they was uprising years prior.

Streaming and CD sales have switched their positions on the timeline from 2011 to 2018. Streaming started as a relatively small 5 percent occupation of the sales in 2011 has risen to leading 40 percent in 2018. While CD sales have fallen from having the dominating 55 percent of the market in 2011 to 25 percent in 2018.

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The line graph illustrates us the changes in total music sales via different methods: streams, downloads and CDs purchases in the period from 2011 to 2018. The number of sales is presented as a percentage.

Overall,  CD sellers have undergone significant downgrades  losing about 30% of their sales.  On the other hand, streaming services have steeply increased their sales in the market, becoming main seller already in  2017 and have increased by approximately 35% in 7 years. Downloads have changed slightly during the whole span, having lost only 5%.

According to the graph, we can observe that the peak of downloads was in 2014. Then they have achieved approximately 43% of market sales, becoming the current leader in music content sales. After that they have started to slowly decline down to 35% in 2018.

On the contrast, streaming became more and more popular every year, soaring its sales by almost 7 times

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The line graph illustrates quantity of total music sales by 3 methods (streams, downloads and CDs purchases) over 7 years from 2011 to 2018. The units are measured in percentages.

Overall, the number of music sold by downloads and CDs plunged slightly over the period presented while streams showed its gradual growth. At the start of the period, the percentage of CDs purchases was the most popular spread, which was replaced by downloads from 2014 to 2017.

At the beginning, CDs were the most preferable among consumers, close to 55% of sales. Over time the number of downloads sold increased to the point approximately 43% of the total number and reached its peak in 2014, while streams achieved this position in 2018.

With regards to the number of music sales by downloads, it remained almost unchanged. Originally, its percentage was 35% and after few years it attained 30% bypassing its peak.

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The line graph illustrates the changes in music sales during the time span from 2011 to 2018 by three methods: streams, downloads, CDs purchased. Units are measured in percentage.

Overall, the sales of CDs decreased over the period given, while for the streams, it rose. For 7 years people’s preference in downloading music didn’t make a big difference, but it fluctuated slightly.

With regards to the percentage of music sales by downloading it, it began with 35%, peaked at approximately 43% before falling to 30%. In 2011, people were attracted to purchasing CDs. However, the interest in compact discs decreased, dropping from 55% to 25% and never went up.

On the other hand, the curve of streaming soared, which means the popularity of the particular method of listening to music increased, rising from 5% to 40%.

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The graph illustrates the changes in total music sales from 2011 to 2018. The sales are divided into three methods: streams, downloads and CDs purchases. The number of sales is measured in percents.

Overall, both downloads and sales of music via physical interaction have decreased. However, CDs purchases have dropped more significantly than the downloads in the span of these eight years. On the contrary, streaming of music has increased immensely and became extremely popular during the abovementioned period.

In the 2011 downloads of music was quite a high-demand thing. However, at that time it could not be compared with CDs purchases because the difference in popularity between these ways of buying music was considerably huge. Physical sales reached their peak of approximately 55 percent in the beginning of the span and dramatically plunged to the minimum of around 25 percent by the end of it. Downloads have also had their maximum but it happened in 2014 and it was probably 43 percent. In the end of the span the downloads like CDs purchases has reached their minimum but the downloading of music was more popular as opposed to the physical sales and was 30 percent.

In the beginning of the period, music streams was extremely an unpopular thing. Nevertheless, in 2018 these method of selling music became the most the liked one and reached the peak of slightly more than 40 percent. No other way of music sales could not be compared with the streams. It’s worth mentioning, that the streams and 2 other ways of buying music were at the same level of popularity in the period of 2016 to 2017.

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The line graph illustrates the changes in total music sales by three particular methods: streams, downloads and CDs. The units are shown in percentages.

Overall, only streaming way of selling music had growth during the whole particular span. Whereas amounts of downloads and CDs purchased dropped over the eight years.

In 2011, around 55% of sales were of CDs, however, the continuous decline set its level at less than 30% at the end of the span. On the contrary, streaming services had a long-lasting growth of popularity that allowed them to gain around 35% of all purchases by the end of the eight years.

Downloads didn't show any significant changes and stayed relatively popular. With the slight gain in the first half and peak at around 45% in 2014, had a slight decrease afterwards, ending up having 30% of all music purchases in 2018.

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The graph illustrates people’s preferences in terms of purchase methods of music in 2011-2018 years. The horizontal axe shows years and the vertical one indicates the percentage.

Overall, considerable changes are noticed in demand for streaming services and compact discs, while downloading rates are less elastic. In 2012 the most common means of music distribution was CDs, comprising approximately 55 percent of aggregate sales, whereas streams sold less than 10 percent on the whole. Over 7 years this situation drastically changed with streams growing more popular and reaching slightly over 40 percent and compact discs declining in sales thrice.

In contrast to streams and CDs' trends, downloads were valid both in 2011 and 2018. This type of sales fluctuated a bit over the years, increasing in the first half of the graph and decreasing in another, yet, in general, around 35 percent of music was distributed this way.

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The line chart presents the changes in the number of total music sales from 2011 to 2018. The quantity of sales is divided by method into several categories: streams, downloads and CDs purchased and is shown in percentages.

Overall, the number of sales of downloads and CDs purchased gradually declined over the span, while the sales of streams increased rapidly every year.

It can be seen from the graph, that the peak of popularity of downloads was in 2014, when the percentage of sales was marginally above 40%. Over the next four years the demand for this product fell steadily, and by the end of 2018 sales were exactly 30%. At the beginning of the period the CDs purchased were greatly in demand, but then the quantity of customers began to drop and hit a low of approximately 25% in 2018.

It is noticeable, that the line of sales of streams shows a speedy boom. The number of buyers of this product was gradually growing and by the end of the period the quantity had increased by about 35%.

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The graph shows total music sales by three methods: downloads, streams and CDs purchased from 2011 to 2018. The units are displayed in percentages.

Overall, the sales of CDs have gone down significantly, while the demand for downloaded music fluctuated a bit, but remained almost the same during the considered time period. Music streams are the exception: they saw a steep rise.

In 2011, most listeners preferred to buy CDs, sales of which were approximately 55%. However, the popularity od CDs decreased over the years and only 25% of customers purchased them in 2018. Streaming sales, on the contrary, which started from about 5% in 2011, rose dramatically and transcended 40% by 2018.

Downloads, which started from 35% in 2011, reached its peak of 43% in 2014. After that, this method saw a rebound and finished at approximately 30% of sales by the end of the span.

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The line graph illustrates the changes in music sales by streams, downloads, and CDs purchased between 2011 and 2018. The number of sales is presented in percentage.

Overall, CDs sales have declined dramatically during the span whereas streams' sales have shown a significant surge. Meanwhile, music sales by downloads slightly fluctuated over the 8 years but remained a little less popular.

In 2011, CDs were the most preferable option of purchasing the music starting with approximately 55%, which is almost 11 times higher than proportion of streams bought in the same year. In the following years CDs sales proceeded to steadily decrease falling to a number between 20% and 30%. On the contrary, streams selling, being the least demanded one at the beginning of the measurement, rocketed to about 40% by the final year.

Downloads undulated during the span, increasing gradually in the first few years and reaching its peak of slightly over 40% in 2014. It then plunged steadily to 30% conceding almost 10% to itself comparing to the beginning of the span.

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The line graph illustrates the changes in music sales from 2011 to 2018 depending on methods: streams, downloads, and CDs purchased. The sales shares are represented as a percentage of the total.

Overall, both direct CDs purchases and downloads have significantly declined over the period given, while streams have grown rapidly. In 2011 CDs purchasing was the most frequently used method of buying music, which was replaced by downloading from 2013 to 2017, and following that streaming became the most popular type in the final year.

With regards to the number of CDs bought, it began at around 55% and then was slowly decreasing during all 8 years before falling to 25 percentages in 2018. Likewise, approximately one-third of the total music purchased came from downloading at the beginning of observations, and then in 2014, the peak was reached (around 43%) before a moderate decrease to 30%.

According to the data, the popularity of streaming music among listeners was significantly growing over years. It started in 2011 at about 5%, outstripped CD purchasing in 2016, downloads in 2017, and in 2018 took a leading position at 40 percentages.

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The line graph shows the changes in music sales between 2011 and 2018 by three methods: CDs, streams and downloads. The units are measured in percentages.

Overall, both downloads and CDs have declined during that period. Whereas the number of music sold by streams have shown a rapid raise.

In 2011, the majority of listeners preferred to buy CDs, sales of which were nearly 55%. But over the years, they were overtaken by streams, that started from about 5%, but rose dramatically to almost 40% by 2018.

Downloads peaked in 2014 at nearly 43% sales, but saw a steady decline to 30% by 2018 with the simultaneous increase in popularity of streaming platforms.

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The line chart presents the changes in sales of purchasing music by the methods (streams, downloads, CDs purchased) from 2011 to 2018. The number of sales is presented in percentage terms.

Overall, the music sales have decreased during this span, with the exception of streaming, which saw a considerable rise. At the start of the period, CDs were the the most popular among music lovers but finished in last place in 2018.

The sales via buying CDs and downloading songs showed a drop for approximately 30% and 5% respectively. Streaming, starting from 5% in 2011, rose dramatically to slightly over 40%.

CDs purchased witnessed a decline in sales and streaming sales steeply gone up for the whole period. However, downloads started from about 35% in 2011 and steadily rose to just above 40% in 2014. At this point, the method saw a rebound and finished the period with around 30% by the end of the span.

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The graph shows the percentage of the aggregation of musical pieces that were sold using the downloads, streaming services, and CD form. The period shown on the graph, was lasting from 2011 to 2018. The period is measured in years.

Overall, percentage of the total music sold as CDs and downloads decreased over the period, while the part of songs and melodies sold using streams was rising during these 8 years.

In 2011 almost 60% of total music was sold by physical sales and nearly 35% was downloaded by consumers. During the period the percentage of music sold in CD form was falling fast and in 2018 it was only one third of the percentage, sold in the 2011, while the percentage of downloaded music decreased not so dramatic over the period.
In 2011 only 6-7% of music was sold using streams, but during next 8 years this percentage was growing and in 2018 it was nearly 7 times bigger than it was in the first year of the period.

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The line graph compares the proportion of record sales by the downloads, the CDs purchased and the streams from 2011 to 2018. The units are measured in percentages.

Overall, both CDs and downloads' selling declined over the span of the 8 years. Whereas the number of tunes sold by streams was steadily increasing.

In 2011, the majority of listeners supported the distribution of CDs, sales of which were around 55%. On the contrary, streaming services weren't very popular, starting only from 5%. Downloads overtook CDs sales in the middle of 2013.

Percentage of people buying downloads reached the peak in 2014 at about 43% of sales but fell to 30% by 2018. CDs sales were around 25%, while streaming surpassed both other methods and amounted to over 40% of sales in 2018.

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The graph illustrates the changes in music sales from 2011 to 2018. The total sales are divided by method into streams, downloads, CDs purchased. The units are displayed as percentages.

Overall, CDs sales considerably fell over the period while streams became more popular. The sales of downloaded music slightly fluctuated but remained almost equally popular during the span.

In the beginning of the period, the majority of music listeners, approximately 55% of them, preferred to buy CDs. Over the years, however, CDs sales decreased significantly as in 2018 only about 25% of customers bought them. The steams sales, on the contrary, went up during the 8 years, starting with nearly 5% of total music sales and increasing almost 8 times by 2018.

In 2011, downloading music was a way to buy music for around 35% of customers. The sales reached a peak of just under 43% of total sales in 2014, becoming the most popular method. After that, the popularity of downloads declined gradually, finishing at the point of 30% of total sales. Thus, the downloading remained almost stable compared to steaming and purchasing CDs.
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The line graph shows the change in music sales by three methods: streams, downloads and CDs purchased. The reviewed period is from 2011 to 2018, the number of sales is presented in percentage terms.

Overall, the total number of sales by CDs and downloads has significantly decreased, while streams have shown a rapid jump. Streams were growing during the whole term, downloads sales were rising from 2011 to 2014, however the number of CDs sold was steadily going down for 8 years.

For the first half of the span CDs were the most popular option to buy music. About 55% of listeners preferred this way, but later it showed only a quarter of total sales. Starting from 2013 to 2016 downloads were demonstrating the highest result in sales. It was hesitating from 40 to 35 percent. By the end of the period sales by streaming were approximately 15% over then by two other methods.

In comparison with downloads, which sales remained almost stable, CDs and streams witnessed a steep change in indicators in the beginning and in the end of the span.

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THE TASK: The graph below shows how people buy music. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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THE TASK: The graph below shows how people buy music. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The graph illustrates trends ....

Overall, both downloads and physical sales of music have steadily declined. ...

In 2011, the majority of music sales were of CDs,....

Downloads peaked in 2014 at about 43% of sales but ...

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The graph shows total music sales by the downloads, the CDs purchased and the streams from 2011 to 2018. Sales are measured in percents.

Overall, CD sales fell dramatically, while buying music by streams became extremely popular. Only percentage of music downloads remained practically stable over the period.

The percentage of music sold by CDs purchasing constantly followed from 2011 to 2018. It lowered practically two times during that span. The music sales on the streams, on the contrary, steadily increased over the period. They rose from 5% to 41%. In comparison to downloads, total sales of music by these two methods changed rapidly.

The popularity of downloading music went up for 8% from 2011 to 2014 and then declined. In 2018 sales by downloads were only 5% lower, than in 2011, so they did not jump or drop significantly.