For the first time ever in the history of music sales, older record sales have exceeded the sales of newer releases, as the public en masse reject modern music. Older music outsold current releases by 4.3 million, according to a 2015 report compiled by Nielsen. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: To give some perspective, only a decade ago current music sales dominated catalogue music by over 150 million albums. The new data comes from a 2015 year-end report by Nielsen, the data company that operates SoundScan music sales statistics that in turn informs the Billboard charts. According to a report by VICE: However, this data pertains solely to albums—either physical or digital—and does not include streaming. So, whether the Nielsen report shows a real declining sales trend for new artists, or merely that we’ve shifted away from albums entirely (the argument that young people are more inclined to stream rather than purchase music seems plausible), is shocking, though perhaps not entirely unexpected. A trend towards pirated digital music downloads from torrents seems like a certain contributing factor in less new music being sold. Additionally, studies have shown repetitive choruses in music to be more popular, indicating a possible precipitating factor in the perhaps intentional [...]