The bar chart provides a comparative analysis of the genres of music that were purchased by different age ranges across the USA in 2010. The units are measured in millions. Overall, while the youngest and oldest demographics purchased more pop and classical recordings compared to other types accordingly, with the former hitting a chart high and the latter generally buying the most music types among their young counterparts, the rest of age groups chose rock that was the second popular genre in the youngest and oldest age categories. It is also apparent that pop recorded the least sales in the age cohorts of 32-45 and 46-57.
Just below 5 million of pop recordings were sold to the youngest generation – a figure that was the highest in the column chart – whereas the oldest age cohort bought 3 million of that type. Although rock was not the favorite in these two groups, it was amounted to almost 4 million and over 3 million, respectively. Jazz showed somewhat lower numbers in the age sets of 16-22 and 58+ with ratio of 2:3. Lastly, despite standing at the lowest point in the former group (1.8 million), the figure for classical music stood at a significant 4.5 million.
The remaining age groups, on the other hand, shopped more rock recordings. Over 4 million of rock was bought by 23-31-years-old individuals, followed by pop at about 3.5 and jazz at about 2.8. Lagged behind all of them was classical music with approximately 2.2. The last two showed somehow similar trends. Both age ranges (32-45 and 46-57) preferred rock over other genres (roughly 3.2 versus 3.8). The disparity between jazz and classical recordings was minimal in groups, representing 3 & 2.8 in the first group as well as 2.4 & 2.6 in the other one, respectively. Pop was virtually sold equally to those age ranges at around 1.5.