iTunes becomes biggest US music seller
Thanks to a spike in post-holiday sales, Apple’s iTunes online store outsold long-time top music retailer Wal-Mart in the United States during both January and February, the company said Thursday. Research firm NPD has been tracking the meteoric rise of iTunes among music retailers since it broke the top ten sellers in the third quarter 2005. It entered the rankings at number seven behind Circuit City, FYE, Amazon.com, Target, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart.Data from NPD, which tracks retail sales in the US, showed that by the first quarter of 2007, iTunes had upset all but Wal-Mart and Best Buy, establishing a comfortable position in third. The margin between third and second place represents the largest gap in the rankings.
Then, citing NPD data again in February of this year, Apple claimed its iTunes store was number two in music sales in 2007, selling over 200 million songs on Christmas Day alone. It was during one of these spikes that iTunes finally ranked higher than Wal-Mart, garnering a 19% share of music sales over the discount retailer’s 15%. According to the company, it was able to hold that top spot during January and February. Apple has sold 4 billion songs through iTunes and counts over 50 million customers.
Source: Betanews
Comments(21)
Is there anything better than ITunes for an IPod?
Thanks for all the work…
yeah there is ,its like downloading all your songs for free and putting them on your ipod for freeeeeeeeee i find it alot better !!
If you really love apple then you pay for their music…
Its “their” music, is it?
That should read
If you really love music then you pay for music, and buy an iPod…
Okay . . . and? Who cares. Apple sucks!!!! Windows baby Windows!!!!!!
You can get windows on your iPod?
While despised by the PC crowd for the Apple Culture and design over choise, Apple continues to hammer the nail on the coffin of music industry internationals model by grabbing little by little the distribution cake which is the basis and sole existence of the internationals, the greedy RIAA continues barking at the p2p tsunami which they cant do anything to stop except putting out threats that enrage people and turning their heads the other side on Itunes continually growing mindshare and emerging monopoly. Still, Itunes Store is not a wise solution but a quickly grabbed and smart move on Apples business tactics to dominate the middleman distributor market and enslave the internationals when the time comes to absolute reliance on them. Microsoft as always failed to respond quickly by sitting comfortably on their cash throne and taking a chance at this with Windows Vista and it seems more greedy with the next version of Windows 7,Windows 7 when almost every subsystem/function of the OS will be modularized,everything will be virtualized and Microsoft will put charges for additional functions….
Well I went on from an Apple Nano to a Creative Zen an now I have a Sony Walkmann (without SonicStage). Must say that the sound quality is a hell of a lot better on the Creative and espescally on the Sony. But Itunes is a really nice store..
An Apple press release is news how exactly?
Apple says “We’re the best!”, film at eleven!
The “According to the company” part should be a clue to — assuming anyone even cares in the first place, god only knows why they would — take these claims with a giant grain of salt.
Make sure to post Battlestar Galactica…its back on tonight YAY
so glad for all the apple related stuff here on rlslog.
nothing beats the pissed PC crowed. well, one thing would beat it, but it’s out of th escope for today: the nuking of china
How did that band put it “Money for nothing and chics for free”?
Whole albums offer the listener the chance to observe the music artist as an artist. With an average track length of 3.5 minutes, a music collection with 2 to 3 tracks by each artist is incomplete and does not offer the full spectrum, the ups and downs so to say, necessary to touch the soul.
BT network would be a mess if we download a track at a time. It is a great protocol for acquiring music. Rock on!
OFFTOPIC:
Now all we need is our US ISPs to invest some of that money back into their network. The network would be better off public domain like the Interstate Highway System in th US (It’s massive and paid for with vehicle registrations and state lotteries).
I am seriously sick of all the pople blindly defending Apple.
Shure, they started out as the cool nerdy outsiders that defied MSs rain.
But look at them NOW.
ITunes is robbing Artists of their allready low income from CD and mp3 sales (99% of artist earn their money with live gigs)
Apple sues chinese mp4 player producers because their players LOOK to much like an IPod. WTF? It doesnt say IPod on it, it didnt say IPod anywhere in the sales description, I bought it specificly BECAUSE it was no IPod (all those restrictions the ipod comes with… pff, laughable) and still it didnt make it past the borer because of APPLEs influence.
And finaly, there is this:
Apple thinks the Logo of the campaign for a cleaner, more enviermentaly friendly New York looks to much like the Apple logo and Newyork cant use it… Now look at those logos
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/SoulSeekerHS/01020141900.jpg
WTF?? They dont look alike AT ALL. You couldnt mistake one for the other EVER. Apple is just as big and bad as Microsoft. Screw them both.
yea…F(_)CK iTUNES…i have new iPOD NANO …i use MEDIAMONKEY(free)..and yes i dont buy MUSIC..and NANO is a grat product..
I’d rather claw my face off than own an Apple product, but that’s just because almost everyone else does. Do cattle know they’re cattle?
I beg to differ! LimeWire has to be the bigegst and don’t cost u a cent! Selling for free…Now thats an Idea
Hey where are the apple ipod knockoffs and what do they offer? I would like a ipod like interface but apple will never get one cent from me. If there was no microsoft the worl would be a very bad place…We would all be piss pore trying to affford anything the apple empire produces…Seriously..they scare me more than microsoft with there close ended everything.
Too bad half the artists aren’t seeing a cent of royalty from iTunes sales… and they say P2P is stealing!?!?
ITUNES, wtf is that. Never heard of it. lol
@ WOW: not true, I get a lot of my income from Itunes, I just paid my new Mac Pro and 50″ Plasma TV from it, THANKS APPLE!!!
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