Record sales show technology hasn't changed our taste in music

(Timeline Credit: The Business Model Database)

Technology has revolutionized the way we consume music in the past decade, but according to record sales, that hasn't greatly affected our tastes.

There have been slight shifts, like the recent rise of electronic music and success of festival bands, but a graph of the Nielsen Soundscan via Digital Music News shows genre consistencies over the years (with “Rock” category being reintroduced in 2006):

Do you find this report to be true? Are you listening to the same bands and genres you did five to ten years ago?