Researchers The Leading Question and digital music strategists Music Ally have revealed that nearly three-quarters of UK music fans prefer CDs to downloaded files.
The results were part of their Speakerbox survey, which interviewed more than 1,000 fans aged 14-64, found that a physical CD still has a much stronger hold over music fans than digital downloads, with 59% saying they listen to a CD every day and 55% of teenagers afmitting they prefer CDs to MP3s.
Although digital media has often been criticised as being the downfall of the current music industry, the survey found that filesharing albums and singles only accounts for up to 17% of music exchange. Swapping CDs, on the other hand, occurs between almost a quarter of fans.
Meanwhile, those who do subscribe to filesharing services actually continue to spend an average of
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