Study finds CD’s still popular. In related news, they still make CD’s

A British study by a music industry consulting firm has claimed that CD’s are still the most popular way to consume music.

According to the Music Ally Speakerbox survey 73% of people were still happy purchasing CDs rather than downloading and 66% of 14 to 18 year olds prefer CDs. If that’s not already sounding a little strange, wait for the next figure: the survey claims that 59% of all music fans still listen to CDs every day.

But wait, we haven’t finished yet. The survey also claims that burning music onto CD’s is still the most popular way people share music (23%), then bluetooth (18%) and then eventually online (17%.) The survey of 1000 people concluded by saying that there “is little evidence to show that digital music consumption is simply replacing physical consumption.”

Now although I have a natural skepticism when it comes to surveys, there’s only two possible conclusions you can make about these results: 1: the English are retarded or 2: the results are complete and utter bollocks. I’m going with two because you only have to take a look at the sales figures for iPods in the United Kingdom to know that 66% of 14-18 year olds prefer CD’s in epically wrong. You also have to factor in lying as well: people who illegally download files are hardly going to confess on the phone that they do to a company that works with the music industry…no, they’re going to say that they never download anything and love CDs. The only thing missing though is the agenda in coming up with these results, and I don’t know enough about the company to guess what it might be…but nine times out of ten there is an agenda behind the results.