sciencevsromance:

rickwebb:

The New York Times > Opinion > Image > Music Sales

Everyone’s posting this graphic; maybe it somehow speaks for itself. But what I think is the most startling is how big the CD slice is right now, even at this headline-grabbing crisis-level current low relative to pretty much anything ever except for its own crazy, “hey, let’s repurchase everything all over again” high.

Also notable is that it accompanies an analysis-light gloom-and-doom article by a guy who says he hasn’t purchased a “truly great CD” since 1999. [nyt]

More than anything else, I just like the format of the graphic.  I haven’t seen this kind of pixelated whale graph before, and it does a really nice job of communicating the information.