iunes still top for music downloads
Apple’s iTunes has long been the world’s top service for buying legal music downloads. Solidifying that claim this week is the news that iTunes is still the top provider of music sales in the US.
In the first six months of this year, iTunes has managed to fend off competition from the likes of Wal-Mart and Best Buy, who came in second and third spots respectively. The stats were based on sales of albums (or bundles of 12 tracks).
Amazon’s music service for music downloads made some headway, moving up to fourth place. Target took the fifth spot.
All the signs seem to point towards iTunes’ dominance of legal music downloads continuing to the foreseeable future with the decline of CD sales and the popularity of MP3s. Amazon has done well this year because it offers CDs and also a dedicated MP3-download service.
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