The pie charts illustrate the allocation of money expenditure on music in three distinct years in northern Ireland. From an overall perspective, one can see that consumers prefer a great deal of money on CDs to other categories in 2005 and 2008, but there is a clear shift in 2011.
Looking at the chart for more detail, in 2005, CDs ranked the first type of music that attract lots of money, accounting for 61% of the total, while other sources have only 2%. Then, in 2008, CDs declined to 41% and hit a low of 26% in 2005. In contrast, digital downloads witnessed a significant rise from 6% initially to 25%, increasing 4 times. The digital downloads soar remarkably to 43%, reflecting the consumer preference.
Regarding other distributions of music, other resources still as initially and saw a slight uptick to 3% in 2011. Concerts reached a highest point of 31% in 2005, but shrinking sharply to 23% and went up moderately to 25%.