JB HiFi have removed CD singles from the shelves.
This taken from news.com.au/entertainment:
THE CD single is set to become extinct.
The music format suffered a fatal blow after JB HiFi ceased stocking CD singles yesterday because of declining sales.
The popular chain made a commercial decision to axe the format - often copies of the week's No. 1 single would sell as few as 350 copies across all their stores nationwide, the Herald Sun reports.
Australia's singles charts are now predominantly compiled from legal downloads, the preferred choice for purchasing individual tracks.
This week's No. 1 single - the Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling - is not even available as a physical CD single. The track sold 13,235 digital copies last week.
The band are also at No. 2 with Boom Boom Pow. While the song is available as a physical release, it only sold about 300 copies on CD last week, as opposed to more than 9000 digital copies...
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Anyone care CD singles will be extinct? I won't miss them, especially when you've always had more variety online when it came to remixes.
