The graph below shows how people buy music. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The graph illustrates trends in
music
buying habits between 2011 and 2018. It presents three different methods: streaming, downloading and buying CDs.
Overall
, both downloads
and physical sales
of music
have steadily declined. The latter has slumped since 2011, while
the downturn for the former began in 2014. However
, there has been a sharp rise in people streaming music
since 2013.
In 2011, the majority of music
sales
were of CDs, at 55% of all sales
. In contrast
, streaming was not common at all at only 5%. Also
, although
people had started to download music
, it
only represented 35% of sales
. As sales
of CDs began to fall, downloads
started to rise. They rose steadily and downloads
overtook physical sales
in mid-2013. During the same period, streaming doubled to 10% but then
it started to grow more dramatically.
Downloads
peaked in 2014 at about 43% of sales
but fell to 30% by 2018. This
was slightly higher than physical sales
, which shrank to 25%. Streaming, on the other hand
, overtook both of them and accounted for just over 40% of sales
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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
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Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words music, downloads, sales with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "fall" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "rise" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
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