The younger music-buying public is more than happy to purchase a CD instead of downloading their music according to the results of a new survey.
1,000 music fans took part in the Speakerbox survey – conducted by The Leading Question and Music Ally – which is a yearly look at how music is consumed in the UK.
According to the research, 73 per cent of music fans are still happy buying CDs rather than downloading, with 66 per cent of 14 to 18 year olds still happy to purchase a CD.
Not a clear cut replacement
"Digital is still the future but rumours of the death of the CD are premature," explained The Leading Question CEO Tim Walker.
"The continued popularity of the CD should be looked upon as an opportunity. We believe that labels and online stores could and should be doing more to build on music fans' familiarity with CDs to provide them with additional digital content and to use the CD as a bridge into the digital world.
"Music fans have spoken and digital is evidently not the clear cut replacement to the physical CD."
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achirinos
July 21st
4. Oh, yeah, they also like to read newspaper, listen to AM radio and watch movies in that old vhs you have in the basement.
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duckie
July 16th
3. There is Lies, Dámn lies, and Statistics.
I rest my case.
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sweston
July 16th
2. Ok...two things. Firstly, CDs are very much digital. Also I don't know any teenager who buys CDs, they all use iTunes, Limewire or Bittorrent to get their music. I have know idea where they got those statistics but they seem very wrong to me...
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jmace86
July 16th
1. I would think that one the main reasons for CDs being popular with 14-18 year olds is that people aged between 14 and 18 do not have credit cards and often do not have debit cards, which makes it very difficult to make digital music purchases from services such as iTunes or Amazon's MP3 service.
It is also incredibly simple to rip tracks from a CD to a computer. I would have to wonder how many of these kids that are buying CDs are actually listening to the CDs rather than just ripping the tracks from the CDs to MP3 format (or AAC, or WMA, or whatever other format they may like) and then basically never touching the CD again.
Does anybody still use a portable CD player?!
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