No Grammy Bounce For CD Sales

After seeing that HitsDailyDouble.com had shown CD sales were little changed in wake of last week’s Grammy Awards, Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com weighed in on the situation. “But what to do if CD sales from the Grammy’s really turn out to be lifeless,” he asked. “Personally, I thought when Mariah Carey did her ‘Fly Like a Bird’ number, a million CDs would be sold. It looks like the real total will about a tenth of that. Of course, maybe that’s because nearly everyone in the US of A has Mariah’s album by now, in two different configurations. The real reason CDs aren’t selling? Maybe it’s time to start looking at radio monopolies, and how they’re stifling interest in pop music.” Read more.