What is the decade breakdown of your music collection?

[remphish1]

What percentage of each decade of music is in your collection. Give me a rough estimate

 

1940's             1%

1950's             4%

1960's             5%

1970's            10%

1980's             25%

1990's             35%

2000's             15%

2010's              5%

[jff]

What percentage of each decade of music is in your collection. Give me a rough estimate

 

1940's             1%

1950's             5%

1960's             24%

1970's            29%

1980's             15%

1990's             19%

2000's             3%

2010's              4% (gaining pretty rapidly)

It probably breaks down something like this.

[froggie]

ooh... based on various tracks/albums i have, (from the top of my head)

 

1920's - 1%

1930's - 2%

1940's - 2%

1950's - 4%

1960's - 15%

1970's - 20%

1980's - 15%

1990's - 20%

2000's - 20%

2010's - 1%

[PopTodd]

Without getting too specific, it probably breaks down with most stuff in my formative and peak years -- 70s-90s -- with good chunks in the 60s and 00s and then smatterings before and after all that.

[tinnitus photography]

this is a total guess, and doesn't include mp3s:

 

 

1940's - >1%

1950's - >1%

1960's - 10%

1970's - 15%

1980's - 30%

1990's - 25%

2000's - 15%

2010's - 5%

[LouieB]

I have no idea. How do people even figure this stuff out. I have material from the very earliest periods of recorded music (before the turn of the last century and before WWI) to last week. What would you like to hear? But I suppose the bulk of my records are from 1950-1980. I don't know.

 

LouieB

[tinnitus photography]

it's all guesswork, unless one has a database built up.

[froggie]

I have no idea. How do people even figure this stuff out. I have material from the very earliest periods of recorded music (before the turn of the last century and before WWI) to last week. What would you like to hear? But I suppose the bulk of my records are from 1950-1980. I don't know.

 

LouieB

 

educated guess for me... pre WWI music? bring some on!

[Winston Legthigh]

Does classical music count towards the year it was composed, or the year it was recorded?

[remphish1]

Does classical music count towards the year it was composed, or the year it was recorded?

Great question..for argument sake lets say the year it was recorded on whatever format its on (Copy write date).

[Mr. Heartbreak]

Very tough. I would say a wild guess would be:

 

1930s               2%

1940's              1%

1950's              8%

1960's             35%

1970's             25%

1980's             10%

1990's             10%

2000's              5%

2010's              4%