Band 7+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows how people buy music. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The given chart illustrates how the percentage of total music sales by three methods changed from 2011 to 2018.

Overall, what is notable from the chart is that figures for all the given methods witnessed a downward trend, with the exception of Streams. Among all the ways of buying music, CDs purchased held the top position in terms of the percentage total music sales at the start, whereas this position belonged to Streams at the end of the surveyed period.

At the start of the period, the percentage of CDs purchased stood at around 55%, which was the highest figure among all the methods. Meanwhile, there was approximately 35% of people downloading music, exceeding the figure for Streams by 30%. Finally, it was reported that people streaming songs accounted for under 10% of total percentage of music sales by three methods, which was at the bottom of the list.

In the following years, the percentage of people who bought CDs decreased significantly to around 25% in 2018. Showing a reverse pattern, the figure for streams witnessed a drammatic rise, reaching 50% in 2018, exceeding the figure for CDs and ranking first in the same year. In addition, there was a slight increase in the percentage of people downloading music, rising to nearly 55% in 2014, before expenriencing a sharp decline to just below 30% at the end of the period.