Old Music Outsells New Music in the U.S.
 

Not surprised, the music industry been in decline since the advent of free downloading, so the money that would get pumped to young alternative artists, U2, Smiths, Portishead, Massive Attack ect is no longer there.

Not that you can do anything about it, I'm just thankful I got to live through part of that high point of music from the 60's to 90's.

Liked the Stokes and White Stripes but by the early 2000's the decline had begun.

Sales went down across the board, except for vinyl which had a 29.8% increase.

if I only knew those 2 artists, id think new music was garbage too

2015 was a greast year, musically speaking. There was no decline, good stuff just moved into the shadows.

I thought The Strokes' first two albums were a stroke of genius. :)

And here I was hoping to read about Jelly Roll Morton outselling Nicki Minaj.

That's the whole problem. They remain indie bands, and don't get the $$$$ put behind them to make great studio albums like past acts like Nirvana and Metallica did.

Again though, I'm don't think you can really do anything about it. Technology is the hand of creative destruction.

This is the key part of the article:
The only thing that this article proves is that the tide has well and truly turned on how people consume music. If you were to include only streaming stats the findings would be completely different, with younger people preferring to stream new releases these days.

I'm old and haven't purchased an actual physical form of music for many, many years. Everything is bought streaming through Amazon or iTunes. now.

How do they even track sales these days????