It really makes sense that downloading is declining. I know that if I take a look at my playlist, they are mostly songs that were released before 2000. The way I see it, once MP3s became popular everyone started to download their favorite music. Now a few years after the fact they are still downloading but just not in the mass quantity that they were before due to the fact that they have already downloaded all of their favorite music from the previous 40 years. There isn't enough new music coming out to keep up that trend in downloading and for what it's worth IMO the new music that is coming out today for the most part sucks. The same trend would happen if a new format came out. You would see a rush in the beginning when everyone would get all of the favorite songs in the new format and then the stats would start to trail off. btw - Buy the new Grady album... it's pretty damn wicked.