Am I the Only One?

[johnsobas]

whatever said:

kber81 said:

whatever said:

The CD business is in big trouble. Sales are down significantly. The ipod has gotten people used to the idea of not needing the physical media. It will only go downhill for CDs from here.

Do you have any research to back your opinion? Even if figures are on the way down I wouldn't call it trouble. I'm not saying there is no place for downloadable stuff, just it's for a different audience.

Just doing a quick search gives:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGK2CZZu1nEJtZekM7K39jfiLhWAD8TUP10O0

"In all, 23 percent of music sales were derived from digital purchases, Sisco said.

A report released in November by Jupiter Research LLC forecast digital music sales will continue to grow to $2.8 billion, comprising 34 percent of U.S. consumer spending on music in 2012."

 

ok so that tells us how much is taken from legal downloads, but if you include illegal downloads it would be massive.