U.S. CD Sales Fall 20% As Online Sales Expand

[DudeAsInCool]

US sales of music compact discs plummeted 20 percent in the first three months of the year as downloading of songs continued to knock the underpinnings from record studio revenues.]

Eighty-nine million CDs were sold from the start of the year through March 18 as compared with 112 million CDs sold during the same period in 2006, according to figures released Wednesday by industry tracker Nielsen SoundScan.

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[Redneck4sure]

It amazes me that sales are that good.

[rainbowdemon]

Somehow, file-sharing is going to take the blame for this.

[DudeAsInCool]

Ars Technica suggests that file-sharing isn't to blame - the real factor is the consumer's move from buying cds to buying digital singles. Read More

[rainbowdemon]

Ars Technica suggests that file-sharing isn't to blame - the real factor is the consumer's move from buying cds to buying digital singles. Read More

You and I both know that. But what do you think the riaa is going to say?

:mellow:

[DudeAsInCool]

You and I both know that. But what do you think the riaa is going to say?

:mellow:

There is another factor. The move of music that people want to hear from Record labels to the independent route

[slum_goddess]

good. they began by telling us how cheap music would be on CD (planned obsolescence, anyone?)

ps, fuck the RIAA.

[CTC Command]

Streaming wouldn't have anything to with it either.

That we can listen to an album before we buy it, find out it sucks beforehand, and not buy it?