Задание

Study the graph showing trends in music buying habits and put the sentences in the correct order to complete the description of the graph.Image

  • 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 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 in 2018.