The graph gives information about the USA sales of recordings by five age groups and music genre in 2010.
Overall. what is striking about the graph is that rock music was preferred by all age groups. The other amazing point is that pop music was the most popular for under-22s. In contrast. it was less popular for people aged 32 to 57.
We can see in the bar chart that in the 16-22 age group. pop music sold around 5 million. While rock music was the second most popular type with sales at 3.8 million. In contrast, jazz and classical music attracted little interest from younger people with only about 2 million sales. As age increases. sales of rock. jazz and classical music increased slightly between 0.3 and nearly 1 million with people in the 23-31-year-old group while sales of pop decreased significantly to around 4.5 million.
For the middle-aged groups from 32 to 57. rock remained consistently popular with sales between 3 and 3.7 million. Pop music dropped significantly to under 2 million in the 32 to 57 group. Meanwhile. classical and jazz music began to rise to nearly 3 million. For over-58s. classical music had the highest sales at 4.5 million, while the other three genres had nearly equal sales. at around 3 million.
In summary, Rock and Pop were favored by younger listeners, whereas older people showed a stronger preference for Classical music.