[discostu]

The day talent has anything to do with sales all the record company exec will take massive pay cuts because anybody could do their job then. No the real news here is 1.25 million sales wins the year, that’s basically nothing. That’s single platinum, that shouldn’t even be top 20 on the year. Of course last year nobody went platinum, this is a collapsed market.

[henkster]

Do they only count CD sales, or does “CD sales” include downloads?

[Paleo Conservative]

8The day talent has anything to do with sales all the record company exec will take massive pay cuts because anybody could do their job then. No the real news here is 1.25 million sales wins the year, that’s basically nothing. That’s single platinum, that shouldn’t even be top 20 on the year. Of course last year nobody went platinum, this is a collapsed market.

Downloadable music formats have inferior sound quality to CD's. Classical music lovers appreciate the quality of CD's and will go to the trouble of buying physical media.