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iTMS Moving Up The Sales Charts

Posted by Zonk on from the lots-of-lost-fans dept.

Kyusaku Natsume writes "According to the NPD Group, Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold more music than Tower Records and Borders in the U.S., based on sales and download figures for July, August, and September." From the article: "At seventh equal in the chart was iTunes, up seven places on the same period last year. Both Tower Records and Borders slipped a place to seven and nine respectively. Russ Crupnick, music and movies industry analyst for NPD, said he would not be surprised if iTunes was to continue to climb the charts, especially in the run-up to Christmas when iPods are high on many present lists."

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  1. Re:The run-up to Christmas? by FishandChips · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's only an analyst. Be gentle with him. He probably thinks everyone gets a $250,000 Christmas bonus.

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  2. Though not so easy from here on in by intmainvoid · · Score: 1, Funny
    So Apple has picked off the easy targets. Still a LONG way to go till wallmart should be worried.

    (and wasn't the original press release 5 days ago?)

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  3. Oh, let's just get this over with... by jpellino · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Apple is the living embodiment of evil because they don't deliver me full quality ogg in a DRM free CD and DVD and and thumbdrive and certainly won't call me in 6 months with my free BluRay / HD because information wants to be free as in air."

    "All digital music is compromised crap anyway, I only listen to each band live in concert in the first city of every tour, 4th row center. Please IM me at "in33dskymil3s247".

    "iPods can't hold a candle to those myriad failed / bankrupt players, but Apple has succeeded because they have managed to emulate MS in their draconian underhanded methods. Fight the power!"

    "Ah, yet more solid proof that Apple will in the ashcan in mere hours - Dvorak is working on revision 37 of his eulogy as we speak - this time for sure!"

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  4. Re:Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Complaining on Slashdot is easier that using Google, I guess.


    Well, he could have done an "Ask Slashdot" out of it.

  5. Re: by jsight · · Score: 4, Funny

    Online, CDBaby nearly outsells Amazon.com, yet it's nowhere to be seen in this chart.


    No, they don't.
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  6. Re:Who cashes in? by anagama · · Score: 1, Funny
    The music companies get about 68 cent, Apple 28,-. the artists 5,-
    68+28+5=101
    ITMS song cost: 99
    I want to know the secret of turning 99 cents into 101 cents -- with iAlchemey like that, and if the conversion rate was quick enough, I could accumulate some extra spending money quite rapidly!
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