The charts give information about music sales in a US music store in 1997 and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The two graphs provide information about the

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purchases by genre in a musical American store during a specific period (1997 and 2017) in five different sectors: pop, rock, Latin, R&B and others. The

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sales

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in 1997 are illustrated in the first graph,

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the

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in 2007 are illustrated in the

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graph.

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, the

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of

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is relatively variable for both the period 1997 and 2017. Turning to the first chart we can observe that most of the

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are pop in about almost half of the

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(49%), with rock in

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place with almost a quarter of the

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(24%).

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, the situation is significantly different in 2017. By taking a closer look at the

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chart, we can observe that R & B is in first place at just above one-third of the

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(34%),

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Latin is in

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place at about (24%).