The bar chart shows the sales of four different types of music across five age ranges in 2010 in the USA. The youngest age group is 16-22-year-olds and the oldest is the over 58-year-olds.

Different music genres were popular with different age ranges. Overall, young people between the ages of 16 and 31 preferred to buy rock and pop music, whereas older people liked jazz and classical music. We can see that rock music was the most popular music genre for three out of five age groups. In all age groups except the 46-57-year-olds and the over 58-year-olds, jazz sold more recordings than classical.

Some age groups preferred to buy a specific genre of music. For example, the over 58 group bought approximately four and a half million classical recordings, the 23-31 age group bought just over four million rock recordings in 2010 and the youngest group bought almost five million pop recordings. Sales of rock recordings were the highest of all the genres in 2010.