What is the average price of a music CD?

Answer 1

depends how famous the band is, and whether it's a single or an album.

usually a single mp3 download is about 70p, and a single CD is about £2 or £3

an album is usually about £8

For those of you in the US using February 2010 conversion rates:

mp3 $1.09, single CD $4.57, and album $12.19. This may be old pricing as I have bought a UK CD album in 2010 at 9.99 GBP. Round off 9.99 GBP and 10 GBP is $15.70.

Answer 2

They are almost always $9.99 the first week after release, $13.99 after that.

I do go to the Dollar Tree every now and then and you can find some unusual CDs for $1.00/ea.


Of course, I got charged $30.00 for a Karsh Kale CD once.


Prices do vary. What I usually do is borrow a CD from the library, put it in a CD player, use a line in cable from the headphone jack to the line in on my Portable MiniDisc Recorder. The copy protection on these CDs are only for CD ripping not for headphone-to-MD recording.


This Kind of Recording is not illegal as long as its only for personal use. If you sell, give it as a gift, or even borrowing it to someone, you are breaking the FBI's Federal Anti-Piracy Law.


You can buy a MiniDisc Player/recorder for $30.00 new or $16.00 used, and a pack of blank MiniDiscs for $9.00.

Answer 3

It depends on what type of CD you are creating and whether you are using it for commercial purposes. First off, buying a single CD (compact disc) cost 25 to 50 cents depending on how much data it stores which should be anywhere from 300 megabytes to one gigabyte.(300 megabyte CD's are typically 3-4 inches in diameter.) Next comes the process of 'burning' the CD are engraving data on it using a laser. Usually with a Mac or Pc, software is provided for this process. Or you can download or buy software. Typically you would then burn your data on to the CD. Altogether this cost 50 cents. Basically, the process is the same for making a DVD(digital video disc) except most of the time, you have to purchase software for making DVD's which cost about $15 -$400 depending on how professional your DVD you are burning is, and what type of data you are burning. Sometimes some computers come provided with cheap DVD burning software. Dvd's typically cost a dollar to buy single, so burning Dvd's altogether can cost from $1-$400 dollars.

Written by : Josh Geek

Answer 4

Whatever price that is charged to the buyer. Prices can fluctuate greatly between recording labels and recording artists.

Answer 5

A recording artist generally earns about one dollar per CD sold.

Answer 6

about $18.00

Answer 7

$17.95

Answer 8

$10

Answer 9

$100