Reid Cashion Professor Lynn M. Raymond owRT 1103 ‘November 3, 2015, Cristian? Gospel* Country Dance /Blectrone Latin / Rep a [re i Clasial Now Age Rap Soundtrack Fig 1. Six year trend of album sales for different genres inthe United States. 2513 m0 97 m9 1332 ui9 ose 204 ma ‘Visuals for Semester Long Project 29 282 46.13 16s 89 Pa6 oa mas 8 26.44 1898 200 1238 srs7 03.71 aon an 109s nat 193 2825 nas a7 97 97 ma ‘Source: Statista, “US music album sales by genre from 2008 to 2013." 827 a8 2462 astion TThope to incorporate into my group's semester long project is a chart of album sales per genre singe 2008 (soe fig. 1). This chart represents album sales in the milion forthe United States forCashion the last six years, As you can see some of the genres stop showing album sales this is because they were eventually incorporated into ther original genres. An example of this is having metal and altemative incorporated into rock sales There is also a decline in albums sold but they is due to our new age of streaming songs so all music has seen decline in sales due to this. ‘Band Name Tits Sold Nat Worth "ABBA ‘58 Milion '$300 Million ‘Queen 61 Million (5 Milion '$200 Million + uncertified The Rolling Stones 6 Milion (erified) @4 | $200 Milion-+ Million uncertified) ‘Aerosmith (66.5 Million [S150 Million 1 ‘ACDC 7 Million (108 uncertified) _| $200 Million + Pink Floyd 745 Million (100 uncertified) | $250 Million “The Eagles 100 Million [$250 Million + Led Zeppelin TIL Million ‘$300 Million + U2 150 Million ‘$838 Million The Bealles 250 Million SI Billion Fig. 2, The data shows the top 10 bands of all ime. Shows the number of units sold andthe total ‘band member's net worth Source: Therichest, “10 Highest Earning Bands of alltime.” Fig. 2 shows a visual ofthe top 10 bands ofall time, The data shows official nis sold other respect albums along with some sles of unoficial units worldwide. Along with units sold the chart shows the bands overall et worth. This data canbe slightly skewed because some mmemibers of bands, Bono fom U2, do other things outside the band giving them externa ineomes. We can fl fom this data dat ock bands have had a huge afluence on musi tastes, because many people are willing to go out and purchase albums from these artists.Cashion 3 Fig, 3. The image shows a rock band using traditional rok hand equipment. Source: Huron! 1, “Stolen Cats Band @ Huron Elks Tonight” Fig, 3 shows a hand using traditional hand equipment. Traditional hand equipment consists of ‘mics and amps. The equipment als inludes and eletie guitar and electric bass guitar, along with a drum set Other equipment that is sod varies fom keyboards to xylophones, anything that the band wishes to incorporate into their music.Cashion 4 Work Cited Statist. Music Album Soles in the United States from 2008 to 2013, by Genre in Milions). Digital image Stotisto, Wp, 2015. Web. 3 Nov. 2015, "10 Highest Earning Bands OF All Time." TheRichest 10 Highest Earning Bands Of Al Time Comments Np. nd, Webs 03 Nov, 2015. Creations, sabella Morgan. "HURON 411.” HURON 412. Np, 16 Feb. 2013. Web. 03 Nev. 2015,