Wake Up!! iTunes Now Number Two Music Retailer in the US

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iTunes Now Number Two Music Retailer in the US

iTunes Customers Top 50 Million

CUPERTINO, California--February 26, 2008--Apple® today announced that iTunes® (www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, with an incredible 20 million songs sold on Christmas Day 2007 alone, and offers the world's largest music catalog of over six million songs from all of the major and thousands of independent labels.

"We'd like to thank the over 50 million music lovers who have helped the iTunes Store reach this incredible milestone," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes. "We continue to add great new features like iTunes Movie Rentals to give our customers even more reason to love iTunes."

Last month, Apple launched iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all of the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema. Users can rent movies and watch them on their PCs or Macs, all current generation iPods**, iPhone™ and on a widescreen TV with Apple TV®. iTunes Movie Rentals will offer over 1,000 titles by the end of this month, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound which users can rent directly from their widescreen TV using Apple TV.

iTunes 7.6 is available as a free download at www.itunes.com. iTunes Movie Rentals are available in the US only and are $2.99 (US) for library titles and $3.99 (US) for new releases, and high definition versions are priced just one dollar more with library titles at $3.99 (US) and new releases at $4.99 (US). Movie rentals from the iTunes Store for Mac® or Windows require iTunes 7.6. iTunes Movie Rentals require a valid credit card with a billing address in the country of purchase.

*Based on data from market research firm the NPD Group's MusicWatch survey that captures consumer reported past week unit purchases and counts one CD representing 12 tracks, excluding wireless transactions. The iTunes Music Store became the second-largest music retailer in the US after Wal-Mart, based on the amount of music sold during 2007.

**Movie rentals work on iPod classic, iPod nano with video and iPod touch.
 
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not suprising they got a lot of exclusive stuff, (which is wat i like bout itunes) hard to find on cd, etc.

but i'd rather buy a cd. itunes only if i have to.
 
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And they can still suck my dick..Their files are useless to me. Terrible quality, and I can't even use it in Serato (DJ program). Or for that matter, any motherfuckin program except iTunes, QuickTime, and the iPod. If they drop the DRM (stop using their own file format), and increase the quality of the songs so you could actually play them, then maybe I'll use it. I use any iTunes gift cards for rare movies, movies I don't really care about, games for the iPod, or single episodes of TV shows.

Not to mention you can get songs in much better quality on Amazon for the same price, and often even less than iTunes (some downloads are 89 cents, and they got album discounts like iTunes).
 
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I think that the most important issue is that local artists need to adjust they way they attempt to generate revenue. I be the majority of sales on itunes are singles, not albums. The hit song is becoming more important, if thats possible. Digital sales are very important, better have your marketing plan on point. Oh yeah, and make hit records.
 
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stingy said:
not suprising they got a lot of exclusive stuff, (which is wat i like bout itunes) hard to find on cd, etc.

but i'd rather buy a cd. itunes only if i have to.
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same here...i prefer to own the hard copy and just rip files myself...i like to have it in case my files get wiped out and having the artwork / booklet is cool. i only buy off iTunes when it comes to single songs i cant find or exclusive albums

City Situation said:
And they can still suck my dick..Their files are useless to me. Terrible quality, and I can't even use it in Serato (DJ program). Or for that matter, any motherfuckin program except iTunes, QuickTime, and the iPod. If they drop the DRM (stop using their own file format), and increase the quality of the songs so you could actually play them, then maybe I'll use it. I use any iTunes gift cards for rare movies, movies I don't really care about, games for the iPod, or single episodes of TV shows.

Not to mention you can get songs in much better quality on Amazon for the same price, and often even less than iTunes (some downloads are 89 cents, and they got album discounts like iTunes).
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you can convert the files within ITunes into MP3....now theyre offering ITunes plus songs for the same price as the DRM ones and I think they will eventually drop the aac or whatever format it is they sell songs in...
 
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