Sample Answer 87
IELTS
JOURNAL
87
The charts show the distribution of money spent on music in three different
years in Northern Ireland
The pie charts illustrate the changes in spending patterns
in Northern Ireland with
regards to music.
The first set of data is for 2003, where it can be seen that the majority of expenditure
was for CDs, accounting for well over half. Just under one third of the money was spent
attending concerts, standing at 31%. Downloaded music was only 6%, and the smallest
category was that labeled ‘other’.
Three
years later, the order of the
four categories was the same, but there was a
marked increase in the sale of digital music and an inverse correlation to the sale of
CDs, which fell by 20% to 41%.
By 2011, digital purchases had overtaken both concerts and CDs and accounted for
nearly half of all sales. The difference between CDs and concert sales narrowed to only
2%, and the ‘other’ category rose slightly to 3%.
Overall, it is clear that while concert sales remained relatively stable at around one
third, digital music sales became more common than CD sales.
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