Norah Jones’ fans too old to download?

It seems that Arif Mardin, the 71-year-old producer of Norah Jones’ Grammy-winning album, thinks that Jones’ success has to do with downloading. Or, rather, the absence of it — as he told the Washington Post:

Asked to explain the album’s success, the producer, who will turn 71 next month, surmised that “it touched a forgotten segment of the market, people who don’t watch MTV… . A friend said, ‘Fifty-something people are buying your record. They don’t know how to download. They’re buying.’ “


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