Why is the size of 1400 imported CD songs 10 GBS?

We imported over 1400 songs from CDs through iTunes and the file size is over 10GBs and its slowing down my windows PC.  We didn't change any import settings and the reading I've done on-line is confusing.  How can we make the imported music smaller file size?  I need to get this huge file size off my hd but want to know how to import in the future without the files being huge.  Everyone else I know doesn't have this issue and they download songs all the time without any problems or the files taking up so much space.  What are we doing wrong????  I am getting desparate since Apple phone support has not been helpful. 

My music collection currently consists of 10,931 songs and takes up 84.95GB of space.  If you break that down, it's equal to 7.77MB per song.  If you multiply that by 1400 songs you would have 10.87GBs worth of songs.  It looks to me like your music is taking up a "normal" amount of space.  Your friends may not be having this issue for several reasons. 
1. They may not have as many songs. 
2. If they are downloading songs from unlicensed places, the song quality may be not be as good as what you have.
In short, I would suggest that you aren't doing anything wrong.  If you are familiar with the import settings, if you import as MP3s rather than Apple's AAC format, your file size will shrink but that will likely take quite a while for not a huge reduction in space.  If your PC is acting slowly, it likely isn't due to the large size of your music collection unless your hard drive is approaching full (95% full sort of thing).  I hope that helps you out a little. 

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