CD sales are still the single biggest source of revenue, and the picture there is mixed.
So far this has been yet another year of declining CD sales.
CD sales also improved slightly with 3 million selling singles being issued this year.
CD sales continue to decline, and digital music has not offset the drop.
CD sales for all 2003 were down 2 percent from the year before, a smaller drop than had been expected before the litigation began.
Daren started off the night with a 60-40 lead in CD single sales.
"Tell me any segment of CD sales that is up 50 percent," he said.
Isn't it enough that the publisher and writer make money from the CD sales?
CD sales are sliding, down 25 percent in 2008 from 2000.
By this time the oil crisis had receded and CD sales continued through to 1979.