The bar chart illustrates the amount of money spent on music in various ways in the United States in two separate years.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that all forms of music experienced a decrease, with the exception of streaming, which followed an opposite trend of going up. Moreover, while Downloads and CD declined dramatically, Synchronization Royalties and Music Video dropped only slightly, with the Downloads having the highest level of expenditure spent on and Music Video the lowest.
On one hand, there is a considerable preference of paying to downloading and CDs for the sake of listening to music in American people, with the Downloads going down from 1541 million in 2013 to 1300 million in 2014. Likewise, there was a similar pattern of drop in CDs, which stood at 885 million in 2013, but had gone down to 719 million by the following year.
The decreases, however, were not sharp in all forms of music. Synchronization Royalties and Music Video went down by 10 and 40 million respectively over the period. In fact, one category, streaming, witnessed an increase, improving from 700 million in 2013 to 860 by the end of the period.