iTunes跃入十大音乐零售商之列

iTunes跃入十大音乐零售商之列

AMTeam.org消息：市场调研公司NPD表示，Apple旗下的iTunes公司成为第一家进入十大音乐零售商的在线音乐商店。

该公司本周表示，Apple旗下的这家音乐商店第三季度第一次十大音乐零售商之列，位于第七位，而一年前该公司的排名仅是第14位。

NPD公司娱乐行业的分析员Russ Crupnick在发言中表示，iTunes音乐商店的日益流行使得该公司成为顶尖的音乐零售商，而这将进一步推动数字音乐零售的合法化。

前十的排名主要是基于出售的CD数量，而当处理音乐服务时，对于出售的单曲的情况，研究人员以每张CD为12首单曲计算。

前十大音乐零售商依次为Wal-Mart、Best Buy、Target、Amazon.com、FYE、Circuit City、Apple、Tower Records、Sam Goody和Borders公司。

iTunes Leaps Into Top Music Retailers

Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes has become the first online music store to break into the top 10 list of music retailers, a market research firm said.

The Apple service made its debut in the third quarter as number seven, The NPD Group Inc. said this week. ITunes was number 14 during the same period a year ago.

“The ongoing and growing popularity of Apple’s iTunes Music Store now positions the company as a leading music retailer, and continues to legitimize legal digital music retailing,” Russ Crupnick, music and movies industry analyst for NPD, said in a statement.

The top 10 list is based on the number of CDs sold. In considering music services, which sell many single songs, the researcher uses an equivalency of 12 tracks per album.

The full list from No. 1 to 10 were Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Amazon.com, FYE, Circuit City, Apple, Tower Records, Sam Goody and Borders.