US lottery ticket sales

American lottery sales and the most-streamed Spotify artist's annual playcount, both climbing. Two completely unrelated industries selling small chances at attention and windfall, sharing the same eight-year ascent.

US lottery sales grew from about 80 to over 110 billion dollars annually across this window. The Spotify number-one artist's annual streams roughly quintupled in the same window as the platform's user base passed 600 million. Two completely unrelated growth stories sharing a window because the same eight years scaled both a state-sponsored low-cost-hope category and an audio-streaming platform.

Two graphs of small attention compounded. The ticket and the stream, both more numerous.