While I still buy vinyl, I listen to digital music most of the time. It’s so much more convenient, and while the sound may not match the richness of a fine slab of 70’s vinyl on an expensive system, in most cases it’s not bad, not bad at all.
So, for a better picture of what I actually listen to than what my physical music collection provides, here’s a chart showing the total number of songs from each year in my digital collection. It varies from this chart mostly because a lot of my newer music is digital-only, but partly because I delete the boring songs from the digital versions of my albums. I’d rather listen to something new instead.
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iTunes tracks the date when songs are added to the library, but in April of 2012 I had to rebuild my library, so that information was lost for songs added before then. This chart shows when the 5000 or so songs I’ve added since then were added:
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The uptick at the end of the chart is because not all of the most recent additions have been curated yet, and because I have some extra time on my hands due to a running injury.