There's no problem with the meters in Sonar.
Nearly all "commercial" CD have gone through a process called mastering. In recent years, a lot of mastering has involved using severe compression, limiting, and even hard clipping distortion in order to achieve ridiculously high RMS (average) levels on CD.
Do a search on "mastering" and be prepared to do a lot of reading.
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