Most Popular Music Formats 1972 - 2022
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- Опубликовано: 9 янв 2022
- In this bar race I take a look at the most popular music formats by revenue share from 1972 to 2022. This data comes from the RIAA, so it only includes legally sold music and legal streaming.
The popular formats from 1972 until today include:
Vinyl - This format has been around since the 1800s and is still pretty popular today thanks to hipsters and DJs.
8-Track - The 8-track format was originally developed for looping messages on Learjet planes. It featured great audio quality and 4 looping stereo audio tracks but its delicate system and larger size allowed cassette tapes to take the lead.
Cassette Tape - The cassette tape was developed before the 8-Track but did not take the lead until the sound quality became on-par with 8-Track.
CD - CD's portability and audio quality dominated the format wars, but not it's price and the price of the new gear. As prices dropped it became the dominant format until MP3s and streaming became popular.
Digital Download - Although Napster was the first to start selling MP3s, they quickly flopped while the iTunes Store became the main legal provider of digital downloads.
Streaming Services - In 2002 Rhapsody started the first subscription based music streaming service. In 2011 it acquired Napster and used it as its brand name in 2016.
If you would have told me 10yrs ago that Vinyl would be the second highest revenue for music format i'd laugh. I'm so impressed
I starting buying vinyl religiously in 2002. I happened to take a listen to TLC’s “FanMail” album on vinyl and the quality was so crystal clear that I’d joined the vinyl community going forward. There’s been a silent champion battle behind vinyls since the late 90s, though.
I started collecting vinyl 2 years ago after I had a few as a child in the 90s. I didn't regret one second.
Vinyl has always had a cult following of audiophiles. Almost every audiophile I've known in my life or read in media has unequivocally insisted vinyl offers the best audio reproduction when it comes to music. My tin ears aren't that finely tuned to notice differences in most cases, excepting of course audible artifacts or the wow and flutter of tapes. Anyway, I'm not surprised vinyl is making a comeback. They just need to invent a cheap laser record head lol.
And it is mostly thanks to the Metal scene.
Well, I guess PVC is profiting more from the Nostalgia-"Streaming just can’t give you this feeling"-Movement than the superior formats of CD and magnet tape, probably because the CD is too recent to be accepted and the magnet tape was too obscure back in it’s time as a mass music format. You need to keep in mind that the revenue of a single sold PVC disc is 2-3 times higher than the revenue of a sold CD, while the revenue on a digital download tends to be a bit lower than on a CD. The revenue of streams is significantly lower than the revenue of a sold CD. So in terms of actual "sale quantity" the streaming bar would be much bigger, and PVC disc would be maybe slighty ahead of CD. What this doesn’t account for is of course people listening to physical records they already own.
CDs peaked in January of 2002, having 95.70% share of market.
Wow I can watch the video 2 and have the same conclusion!
Shout-out to those .15% of people who still use ringtones as a means of listening to music!
Mmmmmm yes, Marimba, my favorite. Can't forgot the classic Nokia ringtone.
Used to do that on my parents flip phones when I was a kid😂
I still kinda do?
@@imboredddddddddlav7765 what do you mean.
*Thats sad to hear especially when the future is already here🥲*
I would have never guessed that more people listen to vinyl than downloads.
This fact is ...little unexpected may be this is wrong.
This is probably because of a combination two factors: streaming isn't only easier than having to download songs first, but vinyl has made a resurgence because it's "old school cool" now-so the type of person who wants novelty is more likely going to go to vinyl than downloads and the type of person that wants convenience is more likely to just stream their music. Downloads are basically just in a bit of a weird spot now.
It's not necessarily that more people listen to vinyl. Plenty of people just buy vinyls to post them on instagram :)
its becoming more and more popular, a lot of gen z are buying vinyl.
Should be about the same actually. You need to consider that this does not report actual sales, but revenue share. Since the PVC disc tends to sell for about 2-3 times as much as digital download does the actual quantity of sales should be in a similar range.
Vinyl went through a small renaissance at the end.
The end ? It's just beginning.
Yes I agree with Steven, it's only beginning.
@@stevenaguilera9202 to bad people listion to vinyl on them crappy Crosley and victrola cheap recorded players now days
@@BeautifulAngelBlossom If you want quality, why would you go for vinyl? People needing expensive equipment to get vinyls sound somewhat decent are long gone, nowadays vinyl is more about an image. Those who strife for perfect audio reproduction have left the vinyl ship about 30 years ago.
@@nwie9mm261 Analog technology sounds so sensational, if you invest enough into it you’ll nearly get the quality of digital. But not with PVC disks.
Also the quality of your speakers is not at all a question about whether something is coming from an analogue source, as well as tubes do not have anything to do with analogue/digital (a transistor is also analogue, it is just cheaper and much more neutral, but some people like the distortion of the (technically worse) tubes).
Sorry, I did say "those who strife for perfect audio reproduction" have left the vinyl ship ages ago, not "those who believe in voodoo and outdated technology". I know, a turntable for 10000$ with a tube amp for 10000$ with speakers for 20000$ will sound great and convice anyone that this is good sound (that is as long as the PVC disc is quite new). But if you do this without trying a 10000$ CD player and a 10000$ transistor amp with 20000$ speakers this is quite a moot point. Not that you’d need to go to these lengths to beat a vinyl/tubes combo. Probably a 3000$ CD-player and a 3000$-amp would be enough to beat all this vinyl and tube nonsense by lengths.
4:08 Wow, I did NOT expect vinyl to still have 7% of usage!
I didn’t expect vinyl to overtake digital download.
Same. I thought it died in the 90's XD
it is coming back actually. More people are buying and listening to vinyl on turntable(these record players is not dead and has becoming more advanced) as it sound better than digital format also for the aesthetic.
im 28 and i have vynils at home, it clearest music you hear.
@@zx39d63
It doesn't actually sound better, that's just people's biases getting in the way of accepting new tech. Vinyl does still sound quite good, but it literally is physically impossible for it to sound more high-quality than a high-quality digital audio file. The real reason they made a comeback is because of, as you said, esthetic, but also just because old school stuff eventually is seen as "cool". Some people do still think they sound better, but that's once again just bias and is likely not much of a contributing factor to its resurgence since it's mostly old people that think they sound better and young people that are buying all the new vinyl.
CDs! Still buy them all the time 😎
The cassette took off due to the introduction of the Sony Walkman in 1979, followed by lower cost clones in the early 80s. Got my first Walkman style cassette player for Christmas 82 or 1983, a Sanyo with no radio, which I still have complete with box
Also, by the end of the 70s/early 80s, reasonably priced cassette decks finally sounded good and could make good home music recordings
Yes, you might say it was the iPod of the 80s 😁
Interesting how vinyl made a comeback after all those years
I had no idea CDs were so old! I remember being very excited to have a boom box with a CD player in the mid-90s!
I found Pink Floyd The Wall CD at the Re-Use-It Thrift Store in Perham Minnesota for 42 cents and the music didn't skip at all.
I knew vinyl made a comeback in recent years but I didn't think it would come back like that.
same
Vinyl came back from the grave to over take CD's in the end
Cassettes are also under a revival of some kind (its nowhere near what happened to Vinyl LPs but still). I think it's because of the fact that you can hold the music physically. It may also be because of the different sound you get from analog mediums compared to digital. Or the fact that most of the mainstream streaming services are providing quite bad sound quality, far worst than Vinyl and CD and worst than cassettes on some aspects. That said, with a good cassette and a good deck you can achieve very good sound quality. That's a good things that physical mediums are making a comeback, as there are options for everyone whatever the want.
Digital Download is most usable for me
Same here. I prefer downloading then putting on my smartphone to use as a player.
Same.
As a 90's kid I still love to listen to my old cassettes on a high quality tapedeck every now and then :)
Love that I was an early adopter of streaming - Jango, the Grooveshark, now Spotify. I was 12 in 2004 and I still use my online libraries.
Cool. I was an early adopt of downloading myself. I was happy to replace my mini-disc player with a much smaller MP3 player. Even if back then I couldn't fit as many songs at the time.
I thought digital downloads were way more than 3.7%, I love streaming services but my favorite songs are those I download on my phone.
In my opinion it's because for this chart they only count the legal downloads, if they would count the illegal downloads too, the digital downloads in this chart were much higher.
@@simmi201 no, illegal downloads are 0 percent always, because this video considers revenue from each formats, not popularity
Great work Captain Gizmo! :)
I admire your statistical videos and you have inspired me to do my own.
I watch your videos, but I'm sorry to say I do so while playing Gizmo's music lol
Your videos seem good, but did you really have to use "Captain" in your name? Gizmo already uses it lol
Born in late 90s, I still use CD as a main format for buying music, because it's only one legal format when I have album forever after only one payment. But I still have some vinyls and MC cassettes. I also remember the era of digital download when everyone downloaded MP3s from illegal sources. As a downloader, you don't risk to be arrested but sound quality is not good. This era ended in mid-2010s
I've tried to use streaming but it's not for me to pay every month for streaming platform and mobile data. But I can't imagine what is "Music synchronization". Is that something like a torrent?
Still, I love Vinyl very much!💙
Thanks for interesting video!😆
This channel, speechless, so many interesting topics explored over time, and usually also with data from 80s, 70s, the goat data channel
About this one, its surprising how vinyl actually outlived all the others INCLUDING digital download！！！What the hell
Really impressive. Thanks
The percentages are a really meaningful way to present the data. 👍🏼
Genial de voir le vinyl en pleine expansion avec sont grain tres special, merci captain Gizmo ;)
Vinyl ❤
Fun learning about 8 track
Amazing to see how LP fought back to run over the cassette that once pushed it to become almost obsolete. It teaches never to leave the battle field.
I think vinyl made a comback because it looks cool while playing and supposedly sounds really good. Cassettes don't really do that, granted some indie stuff like Vaporwave stuff still released on them.
The same reason why the 3.5 millimeter jack is here to stay
Thank hipsters and audiophiles for LPs making a (niche) comeback in the market.
Plus the collectors market for prints/reprints of LPs with cool cover variants.
@@TwiGGSTicK Yes, well said.👍
@@mattwolf7698
Both vinyl records and tape cassettes are old school and still sound pretty good despite not being quite as high quality as a raw audio file, but the reason vinyl is more popular is basically because it's older. They both made a bit of a resurgence because of their old school novelty, but due to its age vinyl is more novel.
:0 you just revived, I'm happy
Love that vinyl is making a comeback
Yay! Captain Gizmo uploaded a new video!
Nice to see Captain Gizmo uploading!
Pues menomas gue me guta esa música por todas no meguta no me canson
I would have put digital download earlier.... napster.
But maybe this chart is for *legal* downloads.
It's based on revenue, so yes.
yeah, if it was possible to take that and limewire and youtube to mp3 into account I wonder how this chart would look
Thanks
Vinyl cannot die ♥
CD for me all the time!
CD sales were really poor in the 70's.
You made no sense You must be under 25
CDs didn't come out until 82
I'm 52 and forgot to use some sort of joking emoji.
@@FatNorthernBigot don’t worry about them, your sense of humor is top notch
Yeah so we're digital downloads LMAO
Я всегда, говорил, а мне не верили, что кассеты и CD - это временно, а винил - вечен!)))
Yayy you bacc
it takes time and thought to find this data, I like this data visualization, because we are one content..
I still don't quite understand what Synchonization is suppose to represent or how exactly consumers interact with this category
Music industry gets royalties when you watch a movie, show or ad
@@CaptainGizmo Ohhh, okay. Thx for clarifying. :D
Great video!! But I was missing minidisc…
It never made it big here in the US. I remember when it came out but it only barely lasted a year here and became more popular in Japan. I also remember getting a free music mini disc from a fast food place I forgot which one but it was inside the lid of my drinking cup.
Does ‘streaming’ refer exclusively to a subscription-based model, or does it include purchasing of individual digital songs or albums that are then streamed. I still prefer to buy digital songs and albums rather than take out a subscription. But then I’ll stream them from the cloud, rather than download first. Does that then count as “streaming”?
I like digital downloads the most (to put them on my modded iPod Classic) followed by vinyls and some casual streaming while on the go.
Cool
Good video
Question: where did you obtain the data??
the comeback of the vinyl :)
Muy bonita meguta muncho gracias por dela sentir gracia
Which app did you use to make this kind of video? Thank you so much
Could you make a comparison between all the consumer camera brands pls ? 🙏 One for film cameras and another one with digital cameras will be really great 🙏
I switched from cassette to CD in 1995, aged 16 at the time. Buying CDs was an expensive hobby! Then I started streaming in 2006 with Pandora, sold off my CD collection in 2012 then jumped onto Spotify in 2016
Rip casset 2006, thanks for all.
Vinyl never dies
Vinyl and cassettes forever for me ❤!)
Glad to see Vinyl at 2nd
Wait, how did Vinyl come back? This is fascinating
Vinyl have one the best quality of music.
^^^Like Jenõ implied...thank hipsters and audiophiles for LPs making a (niche) comeback in the market.
Plus the collectors market for prints/reprints of LPs with cool cover variants.
Visit any music store and find out! People buy CDs and records in about equal numbers now, but vinyl is much more expensive. But what both share is that they're physical formats and lots of the time they're bundled with extras.
До сих пор на всякий случай записываю CD-DA)
CDs will never die! 💪💿💪
What format do I listen to? Digital downloads of SACD ISO files. Also, where is the reel to reel tapes in that chart?
Digital Download and CD is always my favourite
There was music before the vinyl record and there will be after digital.
The formats will change, but the relation between musician and listener will not!
Music is a universal language and as a listener, I will continue to listen to music that gives me space where I can go with my emotions and really get into it!
Vinyl is fighting like a champ
woah vinyl is much larger than I thought it would be
I love the moment where vinyl strikes back :)
Wow I knew vinyl had experienced a resurgence but holy shit! I still have all my cassettes, in their cassette drawers.
Vinyl never died and revived during covid19 homestay since most music lovers started this hobby again which they had left during 80s.
CD's are actually making a comeback!
im surprised music videos were so low, they get millions and sometimes even billions of views today!
kinda interesting how digital music was the cause of CD format decline after a long reign, but its peak did not last long due to streaming services boom
Exactly
I m.proud I never listen music with streaming shit services like spotify. Imagine listening a progressive album and suddenly an advertising intermezzo appears. Sacrileiogus
@Insidia85 Nah, if you have money to buy the music you also have money to have premium Spotify (or others), which wont have ads either
Streaming most of the music today but love a good coletion so i am buying some good vinyls of the best artist out there. :)
Vinyl is king in audio quality with the right setup,
It uses analog, the purest form of true audio. Digital compresses the audio quality not giving the real recording from the studio.
I bought my first Hi-fi and Bon Jovi New Jersey CD in 1989!
You always know when someone didn’t grow up with records because they refer to it as vinyl. No one called it vinyl in the 80s it was referred to as that until recently. It was always “records”. That is why no one ever received a gold vinyl lol
Idk why the music makes me feel happy or sad that they come and go
300k nice 👍
How do you make colored lines move? Is this using programming? please answer
Yes, this is custom programming. It was a pain getting it to work.
Did you developed any special application for creating such type of videos ?
@@abhithakur5403 I reckon they didn't
i wonder if the tumblr boom in 2014 and then the growing bedroom pop/new indie trend during the second half of the 2010’s influenced the vinyl resurgence
I still buy CDs, have since 1995. Call me old school.
I like how Vinyl has started to rise again after so many years. Glad I never tossed my phono player.
This is so untrue. There were still so many cassette sellers up until 2006 in my country and yet this data shows cassette wasn't relevant anymore in 2000s. Moreover, this also shows it shared 0% market share in 2005 to 2006 lol
I still use reel to reel at home, but flac in my car.
Where does MP3 classify? I've been listening to them since the mid 90s. Is it digital audio? If so, why doesn't it show higher numbers way back then?
I think Digital DLs were mean to house the mp3 category.
I was confused at first too, but I think that was it.
MP3 is not a music format, it's an audio format, so there isn't an MP3 specific cathegory in this video (just as there isn't an MP4, or WAV, or PCM cathegories either, for example). You're talking about Digital Downloads.
Thanks, both. But it's odd that digital downloads shows up as 0% in 1998, wouldn't you think? As far as I recall, digital downloads were the rage since the mid 90s
@@PrashantParikh that would depend on what you would call "the rage". Maybe you lived in a circle that was more tech-inclined, so perhaps you were more used to seeing news or people downloading songs all the time, while it being unknown outside of it. I made another comment about how I was surprised to see cassettes at 0%, after hearing several times that they were making a comeback. And while that's true, their numbers are still low enough to not really register a percentage on this list, so that's probably another reason why downloads from that era aren't appearing. Also (and I think this is the biggest reason), remember that we're talking about legal downloads for it to count towards these charts (unless I misunderstood something), not pirated or illegal ones, and the music industry struggled for years before finding a suitable way to easily sell music legally.
It wasn't until later that you could buy them.
L'époque des CD/DVD/Blu-ray était la meilleure 👌
Je suis en accord avec ca
Digital download user here. I always want to have control under my musics.
now I understood why some new artist albums are released on vinyls not on cds anymore
I still prefer to purchase individual songs or albums digitally instead of paying for a subscription but I’ll usually stream them from the cloud, rather than download first.
I still use downloads (MP4's) and put it on thumb drives for my motorcycle and cars. I had over 350 CD's back in 2002 and I still have most of them but they are collecting dust.
It’s odd that is says digital downloads didn’t happen till like 2004 or 2005 yet most of us in college were using Napster in the late 90s and had MP3 players. The iPod came out way before this graph claims digital music was available. I mean heck in 1993 or 1994 Aerosmith put a song out as a digital download if you bought the cd.
The test proces of (internet) streaming has begun 1999. and it worked.
I find it odd that at the height of Napster in the early 2000's digital download is zero percent. I had 10,000 songs on Napster by 2002.
1 vinyl
2 8 track
3 casette
4 CD
5 music video
6 streaming
7 digital download
8 ringtones
9 synchronization
I cannot believe that i´m in a smaller group (digital downloaders) compared to vinyl collectors.
nice, I'm one of 0% people who mainly used cassettes until 2017 :D
I'm somewhat surprised that music videos score so low. I'm all about my music videos. If I'm driving I listen to the radio but another thing I'm into the 80s and have many many videos from then
Mhhh....i need a "Vinyl Player" in my Computer :D
Would be great if you add MiniDisc to this
I'm still downloading music
8-track: *was a really popular format*
me: whats that?
I've been listening to music on cassettes since I was 3 years old (Now I'm 16)
your at 300k subs, I think you should get verified soon.
Why is *MiniDisc* and *DAT* missing in this?