The two graphs delineate music sales in three categories and through five decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Overall, in the first graph from the 1960s to 1990s, pop, classical, and rock music share a minor pattern, with the only categories witnessing an upward trend are rock music and pop music. Meanwhile, the second graph depicts sales from 2000 to 2003, in which pop music was the most popular and classical music the least popular.
From the 1960s to 1980s, pop music and rock music sales both experienced an upward trend, starting off at around 2,5 billion pounds sterling and increasing by an average of 0.4 billion pounds every decade. Conversely, during that period, classical music sales started to decline from 4 billion pounds sterling in 1960 to slightly under 3 billion pound sterling by 1980. From the 1980s to the 1990s, classical music and pop music shared the same pattern, decreasing by 0.2 billion pounds sterling. Meanwhile, rock music continued to increase gradually, reaching 5 billion pounds sterling by the 1990s, projecting it to the top of the chart.
Between 2000 to 2003, Pop music and rock music shared the same sales pattern, with the former having 1 billion pounds sterling more sales than the latter every year. Throughout this period, pop music’s highest figures was in 2001 with slightly over 5 billion pounds sterling. Meanwhile, classical music witnessed its lowest recorded sales, with its lowest being 1 billion pounds sterling in 2003 and highest being 2 billion pounds sterling in 2002. The only recorded increase for classical music’s sales was between 2001 and 2002, in which sales increased by 1 billion pounds sterling before decreasing again by almost half of its sales in 2003.