Forgive me—I know I'm utterly juvenile to put this up (with an assist from Chris), but it's so well done and it coincides with an interesting factoid: After four weeks on the charts, Mariah's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel has failed to sell what Madonna's Hard Candy sold in just its first week! 

Before you think I'm gloating, here's what this really means: Madonna's next proper album will probably sell even less than what Memoirs is selling, and Mariah's next will sell less than that and so on and so forth. The plunge in album sales is to the point now where you can't really even judge relative success or failure in that area—even records from just a year or so ago (Hard Candy) were selling far better than many are today.

Are CDs going to exist in 10 years?