The decade the blockbuster died

Chris Anderson details below the demise of the blockbuster album.

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The decade the blockbuster died

I've been collecting data on just how bad it's getting in the music industry, and this useful list of the 100 all-time bestselling albums offered another lens on the meltdown. I looked up the release dates of each and grouped them in half-decade bins. The data speaks for itself:

If you want to do your own analysis, the underlying data

is in this spreadsheet.

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