This image from Digital Music News was published by Paul Resnikoff back in August 2011. Tthat post included a GIF of the pie chart values from 1981 to 2010 that is even more illustrative of the CD's downfall.
In March, Time's Michelle Castillo ran a story about how there's one more year left before digital music sales outpace CD sales.
Today, Laura Locke over at Technologizer ran an interview she did with Steve Jobs the day he announced the iTunes music store. Here's a particularly prescient interesting exchange from that conversation:
Technologizer: With iTunes Music Store, the artists win, music labels win, but what about traditional retailers?
Jobs: You should go ask them. The Internet was made to deliver music.
I can't even remember the last time I bought a CD. I snicker to myself whenever a PR person offers to send me music via CD for a review on KeyPulp. It seems so outdated, so laggy. It looks like Steve was right to doubt the prospects of analog music sales in a digital world.
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