[News] Why the Japanese still love music CDs

[Polyrhythm]

http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2013...ney/index.html

Makes sense.

[NintendoHTF1242]

UGH If I lived in Japan I would just buy everything in Tower Records omggggg LOOK AT IT! awonfwnioef

and who the hell are the Baby Raids lol

[kendelle]

Same here, I can totally sympathise.

I can still remember being new JPOP fan and wondering why we don't get first press or other awesome stuff with CD sales here. I still don't get it actually First Press or other bonuses really drive up my incentive to get in fast for Ayu, B1A4 and SNSD albums.....

Never heard of this group though, I might hit up JpopSuki Seems weird they've gone with a noname group over the like of AKB or TGS........MomoClo etc

[Yumsushi]

Compact discs account for 80% of all music sales in Japan, which experts attribute to bonus material and an aging population that grew up with packaged music.

True but I'm not that old and I have a large CD collection because I always want to have a physical copy of the album in my hands and see no point in downloading off itunes when it's nearly the same price as a CD. The Japanese editions always get bonuses even from Western artists so /single so I can totally see why CDs still continue to reign supreme there.