everycritic

CD Sales an Improper Proxy for Measuring Purchased Music Demand

"think the CD is a dying format as my generation (and younger) prefers the iPod/MP3 player..."

I'm not convinced. I'm 43 and my generation (generally speaking)collected music via cassettes in a remarkably similar way to how students are collecting them digitally today. (The technology is 1000 times better now, of course, but the IDEA of getting portable, cheap music when you're young is the same.) Then when we got older, got some disposable cash and interacted with our music differently than we did in college, we started wanting to build physical libraries. I am not convinced that in 15 years, today's iPod generation will not be looking to build physical media music collections. CDs are still the best for archiving. I think MP3s replaced the cassette, not the CD.