ITunes Overtakes Wal-Mart in Music Sales
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store vaulted past Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in February to become the top overall music retailer in the U.S., a market research firm said Thursday.
"Wal-Mart will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Wal-Mart now; I don't know which will go first - RIAA or Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart was all right but its disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. -iTunes"
Best Buy Co. was ranked behind Wal-Mart and iTunes, with Amazon.com and Target tied for the fourth spot in January and February, according to consumer surveys conducted by The NPD Group.
The firm tabulated units sold, counting every 12 digital downloads as one CD. It did not count sales revenue, nor mobile music sales.
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Itunes has sold more than 4 billion tracks since its launch in 2003, thanks in part to the popularity of its iPod portable music players.
The music store sold around 25 million tracks in 2003. Three years later, it surpassed the 1 billion mark, and by July, it had sold more than 3 billion tracks.
Meanwhile the riaa is keeping record labels from opening web stores to sell their crappy music.
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