Music Genre Album Sales Dataset (2010-2011)

Have you ever wondered which music genres are the most popular to be purchased? Well, we have the answers. Use the interactive 'infogram' below to click through each music genre to see how the popularity of that genre has changed over the 2010-2011 period. To see the exact values, check out the table below.

Genre Album Sales figures (in thousands)

	2010	2011	%Chg.
Rock	103709	105685	1.9
R & B	57871	55435	-4.2
Alternative	53727	55032	2.4
Country	43718	42923	-1.8
Metal	32554	32206	-1.1
Rap	27328	28251	3.4
Christian/Gospel	24226	23734	-2
Soundtrack	16412	13232	-19.4
Latin	12350	11814	-4.3
Electronic	8735	10049	15
Classical	8957	9566	6.8
New Age	1660	1929	16.2