This is a short article about downloaded music sales surpassing CD sales by the year 2012. Will CDs go the same route as LPs, 8-tracks, and cassetes?
Saturday, February 23, 2008
The Death of the CD
This is a short article about downloaded music sales surpassing CD sales by the year 2012. Will CDs go the same route as LPs, 8-tracks, and cassetes?
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Perhaps eventually CDs will meet their demise, but not anytime in the near future. Although music downloads online are UP, it does not necessarily mean that CD sales are down. Maybe someday, however, CDs will be rendered useless by iTunes.
Most definitely CDs will be rendered useless soon. In fact, CD sales are so down now compared to say 5 years ago that by the time we're done with college cds will be obsolete. Obiviously its easier to just use itunes and buy mp3s then going to best buy and buying the album for an overpriced purchase. Since most are lazy, the online purchase will likely take it course and overtake cds, which is already happening. Not to mention the illegal way of "downloading" songs, which everyone is supposed to be afraid of because music companies are catching people and suiing them for millions of dollars because of damages to the music industry. Its impossible for them to regulate free downloading such as limewire, mirc, kazaa...etc. The list goes on and on and when one of these gets closed down another client emerges. I know i am getting off topic of cds but illegal downloading is just as equally taking the place of purchasing cds just as itunes and any other online purchasing program. The difference is in laziness and money. Once you get over the laziness part of not going to the store, then you choose between spending or not spending money (and being morally righteous by obeying (or not obeying) a law which can't be enforced - downloading songs). After all that, you can tell that cds mostly are, and most definitely will be, rendered useless. Good night.
I would have to agree with what Dmitriy says, people are becoming too lazy to go out and buy the CDs. I mean now its just so easy to listen to the songs you want to listen to, all you have to do is get on your computer and buy a song online or download it illegally. And almost no one carries CD players anymore either so its just easier to transfer your music from your computer to you ipod or mp3 what ever it is you have if you download the songs. Because Im not going to lie Im even lazy to sit there at my computer and burn all the CDs I have on to my computer.
Cds are definetly too much of a hassle for me..dont feel like goin 2 the store to get cds and burn music onto it..then not losin and storin the cd is a hassle to..its pretty much ended for me..except cd rw's i guess..
we still need them for some programs i guess..it shouldnt ever be completly gone out of the market..itz just another way to store data..
I don't really like this article because there is only 1 arguable side.
Of course online music sales will pass CD's. Nobody wants to drive to the store to buy a CD that they can download for free from home.
The only problem, as stated in the article, is how will the artists gain money for their music? The amount of money gained from CD revenues is supposed to lose $6 billion by 2012.
However, I think it will be good for music. It will no longer be about how much money you can make, but truly be about the love of music.
That is when the true artists will shine.
Eventually CDs will be phased out, but that's part of life. One day iTunes and other digital stores will be outdated with new technology. Human nature is driven towards perfection, so eventually we'll find even better ways to listen to music.
well its expected for cd sales to go down because of the growth of technology..... even though its mort likely that cds will be gone sometime in the future i dont think it'll be any time soon.
Of course CD sales are going to go down when compared to the amount of music that's downloaded via the internet. Just like records, CDs are more tangible. Yeah, you can have music on an ipod but the life expectancy of the ipod isn't guaranteed and then what. Some songs you just want to get easily off the internet and others you want to have the whole album because they're classics.
Micah hit it right on the money! Society is becoming way too lazy to actually have to go out of their way to buy something at a store when they can just get what they're looking for right on their home computer. I don't blame them. It seems that everyone downloads music for free these days. Some of them probably don't even realize that it's illegal. I have sympathy for some of the artists that are losing money from illegal downloading which is why I myself make an effort to purchase their CD in order to support them. However like Mr. Cid stated above, the true artists that aren't in the music industry for the money will truly shine because of their love for what they do which isn't making money.
Cds are going down. O well i need a new Ipod i guess i can sell my CD player. Cd are good because you cant trust computers. you can lose all your music by opening up the wrong email. Cds could be a nice back up file.
Well eventually cds will be done with like 8 tracks and cassette tapes. The world is based on progress. Digital music and downloading is the thing right now. The cd can only remain for so long. How long... well who knows?
cds are definitely falling. even cars have capablity to listen to mp3 players and stuff. it isnt the cd anymore. when im driving, i still listen to cd's, only cuzz i have cds ill listen to already inside.. im way to lazy to even burn cd's illegally off the internet. much easier to visit sites like youtube and imeem to hear all your favorite music at a few clicks of a button then driving out to a music store. anyways, cd's do cost soo much money, new cds are like 20 bucks and some of the cd's from my favorite bands cost up to 40 dollars cuzz theyre imported or something from japan and asia. These albums are easily accessible thru the internet and websites. the only reason i like cd's is cuzz i still think they look pretty cool and everything is organized better. but it sux so much to change the cd ur lsitneing to cuzz cars take time to read the cds. what a hassle.
Yes CDs will join 8-tracks and cassettes, when, I don't know. It'll probably be the same way cassettes went out; before we knew it, everything was CDs. We will probably be weaned off of CDs, starting with cars. Newer cars are now MP3 compatible and it won't be soon until cars no longer have CD slots. So yes CDs will go out, I just don't have a set prediction to exactly when.
the chance are that one day cd's will be rendered useless since after all they're essentially just a mini version of records and look what happened to them. The difference is that the wont be going anywhere for quite a while, many people still purchase them (me included, i probably have over 120 cd's). While it may be easier to find the songs u want online, some artists dont always put their music out for grabs and not to mention its illegal. Either way, cd's may eventually go the way of thos older ways, but not anytime soon.
Cd's will be here for still a while to come. But of course I'm only talking about blank CDs that you burn music onto yourself. Music stores will never gain back the prosperity they once had when cd's were new. Music stores can only offer so much. They have limited song and artist choices and they don't have a "search engine". This can only be interpretted with the advantages of the MP3. Music is being produced so extremely fast that CD producers are having to decide which soundtracks will sell more than others because they can't produce and sell every studio record. This limits the CD world and enhances the MP3 world where every song is on the market. This transition of the form of music is just technology and its friend evolution. It began with records, a-tracs, cd's and now it's in the digital form of mp3s which allow a more versatile means of always being able to listen to your music, anywhere. This progressive means of obtaining music and actually being able to "downgrade" it to a CD makes it even more alluring. In all, technology is evolving to where almost everything will be digital. It started with documents, pictures, video, and music all being something you can hold, tangible. But now, they are all being transferred into a world of cyberspace. Well, at least to a flash drive. I also assume one day that all currency will be digital to. That's just a prediciton.
I believe that cds will soon fade away just like cassetes, records, and everything else. It will take some time though and there will still be a part of the population that will buy cds. Downloaded music is the new thing and pretty much everyone is doing it. People are able to buy one or two songs, rather than buy the entire cd. It will take thime, but cds will eventually end up like everything else, collecting dust.
the cd is most definitely going to die away soon! especially with the uprising of technology and ways to download music via the net...the cd will eventually come to no use.
This article didn't surprise me at all, because I know that CDs are becoming less and less popular. There are positives to both CDs and MP3 files. On the one hand, digital downloads are helpful if someone only likes one song and doesn't want to purchase the whole CD. However, this is causing the music industry to lose money because people are only spending a couple of dollars, if any at all, instead of $12 or $13 for an entire CD. After reading this article, I am even more concerned for the music industry.
well as upsetting as it may be it's easy to see that cd's are coming to their end with the easier faster and cheaper ways of acquiring music today. however we can only come to accept it as we do now with the constant changes in videos. who knows maybe there will be some crazy tricked-out way to get music in the next few years that will help more with the sales?
however i must admit i like to take it somewhat oldschool and pull out those old tapes of mine :)
Why bother paying for music at all when you can use a very handy system called Limewire?
All jokes aside, of course people will buy MP3s over CDs! For one, most artists these days only really have one or two good songs, so why buy a CD full of their less than superb music when you can just buy the song you like? Second, people who love a band will purchase their CD to help support that band. If not, then too bad for them. Maybe bands and artists will now make music for the sake of making music instead of making music to make money.
People buy music online? Go figure. I think that some method of "obtaining" music online will in the near future surpass the caveman tradition of going to the store to buy a CD. For one, people are lazy and would much rather download one particular song from an album in 5 minutes then take a trip to a store to buy a whole album. It especially sucks when you only wanted that one song and you were forced to buy the whole CD. Therefore, I don't think it's a shock that downloading music will soon pass buying CDs the old fashioned way.
CD's will never die completely they will always be used if not for storage and music for decorations and something cheap to shoot instead of clay pigeons. :)
i agree that CDs will eventually die out (like the cassette tapes) due to the growth of technology.
I feel old now I remember when i would record tapes from the radio I just wonder what next after mp3 or will our kids ever know what a cd is
Yes. Of course CDs will die. If not to downloaded albums, atleast to some alternative form of storage disc. With the progression in today's technology, a disc that can hold up to 20 songs is sure to be surpassed by some alternative. Hopefully other companies will compete with the malicious and evil iTunes for the top audio sale source.
I agree with what is happening. I don't remember the last time I've bought a CD, but I downloaded a couple songs on my computer the other day. It's interesting to see new technology boom but also bittersweet to watch all our 'old' familiar things put away..
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