On: Music Sales

[ars]

> Another interesting surprise is that CDs are still bringing in close to the gross $ volume of cassettes at their peak.

It's not. The graph does not adjust the dollar amounts for inflation. (Or if it does it doesn't say so).

So the tape sales were more than they look.

[anigbrowl → ars]

Yes it does. I made the same mistake, but read the title: 'value of units shipped for 1973 to 2008, in billions of current dollars'.