AS HEARD ON...
Sunrise Records Owner
DOUG PUTNAM
it and say, “How did catalogue perform for
us?” What we’re seeing is that catalogue is
not being affected in the way that the new
release is. So that’s what gives me the faith to
say that I see the CD being here a long time. I
don’t see that format going away. We do have
younger people consuming it and buying it.
CM: How is your relationship with the
record labels and how important is the
CD still to their health?
For the full interview, listen to the March 28, 2018
episode
CM: You made the bet that there is still a viable
market for physical music if you offer a wider
catalog than just new releases. Is that proving
true?
Doug Putnam: When you just hear, “The CD
declined 15 per cent,” that just doesn’t mean the
category is over. If that decline really came from new
releases because instead of buying that new release
album, these people stream the one good song,
that’s not so worrisome for me as Sunrise. I look at
DP: [The CD] is still very important to their
health. Obviously we just had the Junos, so I
was with all of them and there isn’t one label
out there that says the CD isn’t very import-
ant for them … As far