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# Surprise! Legal Downloads Killing CD Sales
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/legal_downloads/
- Published: 2006-07-26T12:39:00.000Z
- Updated: 2006-07-26T12:39:00.000Z
- Description: Even legal single download sales hurt CD’s sales. If you can buy a favorite track; why buy the whole CD? Just ask Daniel Powter whose single "Dad Day" went #1. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/07/legal_downloads.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

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Even legal single download sales hurt CD’s sales. If you can buy a favorite track; why buy the whole CD? Just ask Daniel Powter whose single "Dad Day" went #1 at radio and is the top digital download so far this year. But the CD has yet to go Gold and languishes at #94 on the Billboard Top 2200 after 14 weeks.

Record labels can not survive on 99 cents vs. $18.98.

What can labels do? Make CD purchases more attractive with lower prices and bonus content. Bundle downloads in three song $3 packages or add additional content. Concentrate more on promoting artists rather than just songs.

Most of all: **EXPERIMENT**. Take risks. Fail. Somewhere out there are solutions.

*Additional reading on Daniel Powter @* [*New York Daily News*](http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/437896p-368842c.html?ref=hypebot.com)*.*