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# Rock Is Most Popular Genre Among U.S. Album Buyers [CHART]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/rock-is-most-popular-genre-among-us-album-buyers-chart/
- Published: 2014-01-17T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-01-17T11:00:00.000Z
- Description: Rock music was the most popular genre with U.S. album purchasers in 2103. Statista used Nielson and Billboard data to find that 34.8% of all albums bought here in 2013. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/01/rock-is-most-popular-genre-among-us-album-buyers-chart.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Albums and Frames, arts, Billboard, Billboard 200, Drake, iTunes, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, music, Nielson, photography, Shopping, The Marshall Mathers LP, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

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Rock music was the most popular genre with U.S. album purchasers in 2103\. Statista used Nielson and Billboard data to find that 34.8% of all albums bought here in 2013 were categorized as rock.

Here is the full chart of all genres:

[![Album_sales_in_the_US_by_genre_n](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201a510fcbb0d970c-450wi "Album_sales_in_the_US_by_genre_n")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201a510fcbb0d970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

more @ [Statista](http://www.statista.com/chart/1783/album-sales-in-the-us-by-genre/?ref=hypebot.com)

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