The graph compares sales of three genres of music in England, starting from 2000 to 2003, while the another diagram spans four decades and the sales are recorded in pounds sterling.
Overall, pop music consistently recorded the highest sales from 2000 onwards.Moreover, the most popular music genre in the previous century changed several times over a thirty-year span.
Upon closer inspection, in 2000, more than 4 billion pounds was allocated to buy pop music, staying higher than rock music in second place at 3 billion. The figure for pop music reached its peak at 5 billion pounds a year later then witnessed some fluctuations to end the period with exactly 4 billion pounds, slightly less than its original point. Additionally, classical music was invariably the least purchased music genre, declining moderately from 1.8 in 2000 to 1.2 billion pounds in 2003, outpaced by pop music by roughly four times. Meanwhile, sales of rock music registered an upward trend after three years, rising marginally to 3.5 billion pounds after some fluctuations.
As for the line graphs, pop music was the best-selling kind of music at roughly 4 billion pounds during the first decade. However, from 1970, the sales of this genre declined dramatically and ended with merely 2 billion in 1990, while pop and rock music continuously saw increases. Specifically, rock music reached its highest point at 4.5 billion in 1980 before going down to 3.5 billion in 1990. Meanwhile, pop music surpassed other genres with 5 billion pounds at the end of the survey, the highest figures recorded across all categories.