How does your record collection break down by decade?

Well, the 2000 item limit explains why it's not showing.

The earliest manufactured item that I've recorded in Discogs is from 1952, the most recent is last year. Discogs records when the particular item was issued, not the first release, so without being able to view the feature available to those with "less than 2000 items" recorded, no way of telling.

 

1960s: 12
1970s: 171
1980s: 81
1990s: 19
2000s:139
2010+: 698

 

I don't see this either. Mine doesn't have the stuff to the left of the collection.
I'm using a Windows PC with Mozilla Firefox.

 

60s and 70s: alive and kicking
80s and 90s: midlife crisis
From 2000: old man with health problems
Dead since 2010

 

Heavily 1963-1975 (my fave period of music) but I also have a substantial amount of stuff stretching back to the 1920's till today (though not much from the 80's... Pop/Rock's nadir, IMO {though with exceptions like Elvis Costello, R.E.M., the Pogues, etc.}).

 

The vast majority of my records are recent reissues of albums from the 50's and 60's, so I'm not sure what decade to list them under for the purposes of this thread.

 

From iTunes (bearing in mind I tag songs with the year they originate from rather than the release date):

1900 - 1949:
Songs: 124
Albums: 10 (3 originals, 7 compilations)
Total time: 6hr 44mins

50s:
Songs: 881
Albums: 87 (71 originals, 16 compilations)
Total time: 2 days, 1 hr, 8 mins

60s:
Songs: 12,209
Albums: 765 (638 originals, 127 compilations)
Total time: 26 days, 12 hrs, 59 mins

70s:
Songs: 11,199
Albums: 1,013 (908 originals, 105 compilations)
Total time: 31 days, 23 hrs, 57 mins

80s:
Songs: 4,288
Albums: 453 (410 originals, 43 compilations)
Total time: 12 days, 3 hrs, 40mins

90s:
Songs: 5,204
Albums: 500 (461 originals, 39 compilations)
Total time: 14 days, 15hrs, 15mins

00s:
Songs: 7,152
Albums: 647 (599 originals, 48 compilations)
Total time: 23 days, 5hr, 30 mins

10s:
Songs: 4,498
Albums: 425 albums (412 originals, 13 compilations)
Total time: 13 days, 15 hours, 39mins

 

My collection isn't quite fully catalogued on Discogs, but this is a very fair representation.

 

I'll do it later when I got time

 

Yeah, the Discogs feature would give totally misleading info of my collection too. I have loads of LPs released in the 70s and 80s that contain music from the 50s and beyond.

 

Don't see it myself.
A lot of complaints though.

 

Sounds about right 4 me 2.

 

Collection couldn't determine on discogs. Hazard a guess I would say 1960s/70s predominant.

 

Like this:
1950s 1 (0.02%)
1960s 88 (2.20%)
1970s 593 (14.8%)
1980s 758 (18.9%)
1990s 1099 (27.4%)
2000s 1127 (28.1%)
2010s 333 (8.32%)

 

Somethings are just impossible to know

 

Here is a breakdown of my collection by decade as a percentage...

Decade .....%age
50s .......... 0.08
60s .......... 1.84
70s ....... 25.90
80s ....... 29.66
90s ......... 13.53
00s ......... 16.46
10s ......... 10.03
unknown ... 2.51 (mostly bootlegs)

I'm surprised that the late 60s are so poorly represented but there you go, the figures don't lie.

As I thought, it is mostly 70s/80s (peak years being 1979 and 1980 which coincided with my student daze).

It fell to about half peak levels from 1985 on-wards (now, which year did I marry Mrs Seagull?)

Most of the 90's albums I've collected retrospectively as that decade passed me by.

From 2000 on-wards my interest was re-kindled so much of the more recent stuff (i.e. last 18 years!) was bought soon after release.

 

Where do you put music recorded and released in the 90s but composed in the 18th century?

 

As of March 9, 2018, here are all of my CDs, Cassettes and Vinyl broken down by decade:

1950's - 1
1960's - 2, technically 0 (my copies of Chicago Transit Authority and Blood Sweat & Tears are both 70's reprints)
1970's - 48/50
1980's - 49
1990's - 3
2000's -1
2010's - 1

I clearly don't have much in my collection right now.

 

guessing here

40's - 2%

50's - 3%

60's - 25%

70's - 45%

80's - 15%

90's - 5%

00's - 3%

10's - 2%

 

I have used the original year of release of the recording to calculate the percentages. I keep data in custom databases where I keep jazz separate from "Pop" that includes , rock, RnB, country, folk etc. For reasons unknown even to me I do not enter the year of release in a classical music database.
Jazz (5079 items all music formats; 7", 10", 12" LPs, Reels, CDs , 10% reissues mostly audiophile)
1940s .002%, 1950s, 20%, 1960s 25%, 1970s 21%, 1980s 20%, 1990s 9%, 2000s 1%, 2010s .05%
Pop (12542 items all music formats; 7", 10", 12" LPs, Reels, CDs , 6% reissues mostly audiophile)
1940s .0%, 1950s, .07%, 1960s 9%, 1970s 29%, 1980s 46%, 1990s 11%, 2000s .02%, 2010s .09%
I am aware that jazz titles are now about 80% or higher of all my purchases. The high percentage for 1980s Pop can be explained by the amount of 12" singles that I have.

 

I can only answer approximately.

Pre-1950s (e.g. classical, jazz, blues etc) 6%
1950s 3%
1960s 45%
1970s 30%
1980s 10%
1990s 5%
2000s 0.8%
2010s 0.2%

 

Too many to count exactly right now. Roughly by percentage:

1940s: 4%
1950s: 4%
1960s: 20%
1970s: 35%
1980s: 20%
1990s: 10%
2000s: 6%
2010s: 1%

 

My collection is too big to be displayed in that view, and I'm too lazy to do the math myself.

Why did I even post this, it's not very helpful to anyone?

 

I use Collectorz, and "release date" doesn't work for me, because I use that to indicate when that particular version of the album came out. Thus I have 0 CDs from before 1984. They do have an "original release date" field, but it's not accessible from the App. Got to wait until I get home to answer that question. My guess is that it will go: 1970s, 1960s, 1990s, 1980s, 2010s, 2000s, 1950s, 1910s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s. 1910s are so high because I bought an Edison Diamond disc player with close to 50 records with it. Though, those have yet to be indexed.

One thing that this still misses is compilations. Much of my 1950s music is on CD comps, so that wouldn't show up correctly, either.

 

Out of probably the 3000 plus I currently own the decades almost tell a story in ways.

1940s etc early jazz swing, and pop
1950s rock and roll, soul, jazz, and etc
1960s, beatles pysch, etc
1970s all sorts of stuff there
1980s gets crazy man
90s and 2000 tell of the person I've become now.