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# Online Listening Replacing Music Aqusition
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/online-listening-replacing-music-aqusition/
- Published: 2009-04-01T07:31:37.000Z
- Updated: 2009-04-01T07:31:37.000Z
- Description: Teens age 13-17 bought 19% less music in 2008 than they did in '07 according to a new NPD survey. CD purchases declined 26% and paid digital downloads fell 13%. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/04/online-listening-replacing-music-aqusition.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

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Teens age 13-17 bought 19% less music in 2008 than they did in '07 according to a new NPD survey. CD purchases declined 26% and paid digital downloads fell 13% compared with the prior year. 32% of the teens who bought less digital music "expressed discontent" with the music available and 23% said that they already had enough music. 24% of teens said they had cut back all entertainment spending.

 The downturn in paid acquisition was also matched by a downturn in the number of tracks downloaded from P2P networks which also fell 6% in 2008\. The number of teens borrowing music, either to rip to a computer or burn to a CD, fell by 28%. 

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In contrast, NPD’s music tracking surveys noted sharp jumps in teen’s usage of online and satellite radio listening in 2008\. 52% of teens istened to online radio in 2008, compared to 34% in 2007\. Downloading or listening to music on social networks also saw a large increase from 26% in 2007 to 46% in 2008\. ([more](http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news%5Fview&newsId=20090331005444&newsLang=en&ref=hypebot.com))