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The image depicts U.S. music sales in billions of U.S. dollars from 2011-2018 for downloads, streaming, CD, and vinyl. In 2011, downloads were at 3.1, streaming at 0.6, CD at 3.6, and vinyl at 0.2. By 2012, downloads reached 3.5, streaming at 1.0, CD at 3.1, and vinyl remained at 0.2. In 2013, downloads decreased slightly to 3.4, streaming rose to 1.4, CD dropped to 2.7, and vinyl increased to 0.3. In 2014, downloads decreased to 3.0, streaming increased to 2.0, CD continued to drop to 2.2, and vinyl reached 0.4. In 2015, downloads fell to 2.3, streaming rose to 2.5, CD dropped to 2.0, and vinyl increased to 0.5. For 2016, downloads decreased to 1.8, streaming surpassed other mediums reaching 3.5, CD continued declining at 1.5, and vinyl climbed to 0.6. In 2017, downloads further decreased to 1.3, streaming at 4.3, CD at 1.1, and vinyl to 0.7. By 2018, downloads were at 0.9, streaming soared to 7.0, CD at 0.6, and vinyl at 0.8.
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The line graph illustrates the sales of music in the United States across four different mediums: downloads, streaming, CDs, and vinyl measured in billions of dollars.
Overall, it is clear that streaming experienced a dramatic increase, becoming the dominant format by the end of the period, while both downloads and CD sales declined sharply. Vinyl sales, although much lower than the other categories, showed a slow but steady rise.
In 2011, downloads were the most popular medium at around 3 billion dollars, followed by CDs at slightly below this figure. Streaming, on the other hand, started at under 1 billion. Over the next few years, download sales gradually decreased, and by 2018 they fell to just above 1 billion. CD sales also dropped consistently, reaching around 1 billion in the final year.
Streaming grew rapidly throughout the period. It overtook both CDs and downloads around 2015 and reached its peak at approximately 7.5 billion in 2018. Meanwhile, vinyl sales increased only slightly, rising from about 0.2 to 0.4 billion dol
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