Parag Kamani

While 2012 will certainly continue to witness a decline in CD sales and an upward trend for digital downloads, let us not forget that the CD is still far and away from total obsolescence. It accounted for a healthy 76 per cent market share of total album sales in the UK last year. Nevertheless, there appears to be no innovation on the horizon that will push the sales of the CD or substitute this format, unlike the Blu Ray technology that arrived as a substitute — and a superior one at that — for the DVD market.

While most people/critics/writers analyse the year gone by, I think I’ll just up the ante by predicting what the year will be...in music.