Data courtesy of Sohrab Daemi on Kaggle, last updated in September 2020.
Current data scope is set to search style for Techno.
More information on GitHub.
Files have become increasingly prominent since the early 2000s as digital music has taken hold. Vinyl releases decreased slightly and began to increase again in the 2010s, with a sharp decrease between 2019 and 2020, which may be because the dataset was last updated in September 2020, but also could be related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cassettes went out of style in the mid-2000s, but appear to have made a resurgence.