Shane Wesley wrote: >Yes it is true, CM enthusiaists are a dying breed. You can't really blame >Tower for their shrinking selection. They can't really afford to keep up >a large one if no one is buying. This thread is driving me nuts! Some people say CM CDs sell like bikinis at the South Pole, and others that there is a CM boom on. Perhaps a lot of the confusion is due to varying local conditions, and there is also a possibility that some (who knows how much) business is flowing away from physical stores to the Web stores. I have a feeling that it will be very difficult to get accurate information about CM sales because (a) the CM market is such a small fraction of the total recording business that no one bothers to track it diligently enough and (b) the boundary between CM and other types of music is so fuzzy that the statistics that are available don't mean anything anyway, as is evidenced by what turns up on the CM "Top Ten" lists. All I can say is, as long as Naxos is raking it in, somebody out there must be buying CM! Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]