Year CD sales 2005 598.9 2004 651.1 2003 635.8 2002 649.5 2001 712.0 2000 730.0 (Source:http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/20 06-01-04-music-sales-main_x.htm)
Music CD's (by artists) are certainly on a dependable decline, and this is quite understandable for obvious reasons; but these same reasons are leading to increased sales of blank cd's (as mentioned above). But the cost of a 700 mb CD vs. the cost of a 4.7 gig conventional DVD already favors the DVD as a media storage device. On top of that, dvd-rw drives are becoming increasingly standard on new PC's. The CD's days are numbered.
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Year CD sales0 06-01-04-music-sales-main_x.htm)
2005 598.9
2004 651.1
2003 635.8
2002 649.5
2001 712.0
2000 730.0
(Source:http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2
Music CD's (by artists) are certainly on a dependable decline, and this is quite understandable for obvious reasons; but these same reasons are leading to increased sales of blank cd's (as mentioned above). But the cost of a 700 mb CD vs. the cost of a 4.7 gig conventional DVD already favors the DVD as a media storage device. On top of that, dvd-rw drives are becoming increasingly standard on new PC's. The CD's days are numbered.