26 posts and columns on CDs
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Radio Isn’t Going Away
More than 95 percent of the people who used Pandora in the past month also listened to broadcast radio in the past week.Music Sales Slump Again
Don’t blame Spotify or Pandora. But you might want to show this article to the folks at SoftBank and Vivendi.You Still Can’t Resell Your iTunes Songs, Court Rules
Resell a CD? Sure. MP3? Nope.Ten Things About Me
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Phablets!Stream Heat
Streaming or downloading 12 tracks, without compression, just 27 times by one user would, in energy terms, equate to the production and shipping of one physical 12-track CD album.
—Dagfinn Bach, in a Music Tank study on digital music consumption
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Forget CDs — Teens Tune In to YouTube
Among the issues dividing teenagers and their parents, add whether to listen to music on YouTube or on CD.QOTD: A Gazillion Hours. FREE!!
When we launched AOL 4.0 in 1998, AOL used ALL of the world-wide CD production for several weeks. Think of that. Not a single music CD or Microsoft CD was produced during those weeks.
— Reggie Fairchild, product manager for AOL 4.0
The Music Business Welcomes the Future, a Decade Behind Schedule
Maybe it was Adele. Maybe it was Lady Gaga. Or maybe just gravity. But the music labels are finally selling more digital stuff than discs.Yikes! The Digital Music Business Is Still Stuck in 2005.
Spotify may be the future. But right now the industry is dominated by iTunes and a phone fad most of you forgot about years ago.Voices