Music CD units shipped in the USFurniture and TV tip-over ER injuries
American CD shipments collapsing as TV-tip-over ER injuries also decline. Two unrelated formats of physical-product retreat: the heavy CRT and the silver disc, both leaving the household at the same time. The new world is lighter in two ways.
US CD shipments fell from over 800 million units in 2002 to under 200 million by 2011 as iTunes downloads and then Spotify replaced physical music. TV tip-over ER injuries declined across the same window as flat-panel TVs replaced the heavier old CRTs and rear-projection sets. Two unrelated declines sharing a window because the same nine years quietly disposed of two heavy household objects: the disc and the cabinet TV. The room got lighter on both axes.
Heavy things left the house in the same decade. Different shelves, same emptying.
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