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The chief-executive of one of the largest entertainment retailers in the UK says the CD will be dead in five years time.

The HMV executive, Simon Fox, told The Sun (via Gigwise) that the CD market will drop from £900 million ($1.4 billion) in 2010 to £300 million ($475 million) in 2014.

He believes his retail chain, famous for it's logo of a dog peering into a gramophone, will finish stocking CDs by 2016.

"There will be a place for CDs, but it's difficult to see out more than five years,”he said.

CDs reportedly reached their sales peak in 2004, but with the growing popularity of digital stores like Apple's iTunes, and illegal downloading, CD sales began to falter.

It is hard to imagine how a high-street store like HMV will keep their doors open when digital stores have already carved a space online, and it could be difficult for 'traditional' retailers to enter the new marketplace.

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