The graph below shows how people buy music. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Question

The given line graph compares the proportion of people buying music in three different ways between 2011 and 2018.

The initial impression from the graph is that over the given course, streaming gradually became the major music sales strategy with its figure being the only one undergoing a steady upward trend among the three methods surveyed.

In 2011, almost 60% of people purchased music by CDs. this figure thereafter underwent a gradual reduction to approximately 35% in 2015 and this situation continued until it reached 25% in 2018. In contrast, people download music albeit starting at 35%, experienced a steady rise to above 45% over the next 3 years and eventually fell by approximately 15% in 2018.

The figure for people who bought CDs by streams were only 5% in the first year, but latter rose rapidly to more than 40% in the end. This is also the highest number shown in the graph in 2018, 10% and 15% more than those of downloads and CDs purchased did respectively.

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