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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”dead cd.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/dead%20cd.jpg” width=”350″ height=”279″ class=”mt-image-right” style=”float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;” //spanCrystal ball gazers at Gartner have sounded the death knell for the good old CD, saying this Christmas will be its last as a dominant retail audio format./p pWe all know that sales of CDs are falling, compared to digital downloads, but Gartner is calling on the music industry to fully embrace the online distribution ‘opportunities’ instead of propping up our favourite audio Frisbees. Here come the figures./p pIn 2007, online distribution represented about 23%t of revenue [in the US] and about 15% worldwide, while CD sales are now dropping rapidly in major markets worldwide and are em”unlikely to regain market share”/em. Percentage-wise, total revenues from physical media (CDs, LPs, DVD-A etc.) have fallen from 91% of revenue in 2005 to 77% in 2007, while retailers are cutting back on the floor space given over to CDs. /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/29e523e/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The CD Is Dead [Or Seriously Wounded]link=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/23/the_cd_is_dead_or_seriously_wo.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The CD Is Dead [Or Seriously Wounded]link=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/23/the_cd_is_dead_or_seriously_wo.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588480777/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/43930174/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588480777/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/43930174/a2.img” border=”0″//a