Consumer research organisation The Leading Question, a sister company to Music Ally, has revealed in a new survey of 1,000 people that most UK music fans (73%) are still happier buying a CD than downloading. Even amongst teenagers the figure remains high, standing at a strong 66%. Likewise twice as many fans listen to CDs every day (59%) compared with MP3s (32%).


We wouldn't be surprised if part of this was because it is now very easy to convert CDs into music files, which is especially attractive when the cost of an entire album online can be quite expensive. Certainly some sites, such as Amazon, do have cheaper deals but that doesn't apply to their entire catalogue; shop CD sales are often a better deal.