June 6th, 2008
62% of Americans say all of the music they buy are CDs
62% of respondents in the music module said all of the music they buy are CDs. 20% said most are CDs; 7% said most of their purchases are individual digital files; 5% said all of their purchases were digital files; 3% said their purchases were equally split between CDs and digital files, according to the Pew Internet Project. 74% of music buyers say they went to a store, while 22% say they bought music online. Even among those who use the internet to find out about music, 33% said their most recent purchase was executed online.
