The provided bar chart illustrates four different genres of music: rock, pop, jazz, and classical purchased in the United States in the year 2010 by five age groups. The figures are presented in millions.
Overall, older adults mostly purchased classical music, and significantly, teenagers were interested in pop music.
According to the bar chart, pop was the most purchased genre among by the 16-22 age group, with around 5 million purchases., followed by rock, with just under 4 million sales. Among the second youngest age group, rock was the most popular music type, which had the highest number with around 4.1 million purchases, while classical was the least popular, with slightly more than 2 million.
In both the 32-45 and 46-57 age groups, rock was the most popular genre, while in 32-45 age group, this was followed by jazz with roughly 3 million recordings, and in both age groups, pop was the least popular genre with approximately 1.5 million sales. In the oldest age group, classical music was the most common, with about 4.5 million recordings, whereas jazz was the least common among older people, showing just under 3 million recordings.