CD SALES DOWN -- DOWNLOAD SALES UP
The music industry is selling fewer CDs -- but the sale of music by individual download is up. Apparently, consumers are happy just picking up the songs they like rather than getting stuck with a CD which has only one good song and a bunch of fill someone thinks we should have. This is not too unlike the good 'ole days when we could buy 45's of the songs we liked -- except back then you were stuck with the flipside -- and we were dependent on radio for our initial exposure to the music. The current trend in music distribution is another example of how things are becoming more narrowcast and less broadcast. The consumer is king -- at least that's how we're seeing ourselves.