Russ Crupnick Cds Quotations

What's been a challenge for the industry is people swapping CDs and ripping and burning copies of them. It's a big piece of how people are acquiring music.

Consumers are clearly making the most of all the choices they have to discover and purchase music, and physical product is still a very large part of the equation. For example, among teens, sales of CDs are up five percent in 2005, illustrating a halo effect from digital music, interaction with video games and other venues for new music discovery.