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  • Sales from Apple's music-related products and services, which include iTunes, rose 38% from a year earlier to $832 million for the quarter ended Sept. 27
  • Apple sold 11.1 million iPods during the quarter, up 8% from a year earlier.
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    apple sales are going up; apple sold 11.1 million ipods during the quarter, up 8% from a year earlier
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Universal, world's largest music company, refuses to renew iTunes contract - Engadget - 0 views

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      this problem is very serios and i have heard some things about i-tunes and universal and it didnt sound pretty
  • Looks like a pillar of iTunes content might be on the brink of collapse -- Universal Music, the world's largest music business, has officially opted not to renew its contract with Apple for vending music on the iTunes Music Store. We don't know specifically what caused Universal to turn away -- perhaps it's the weight of the rising anti-DRM movement among consumers, or perhaps it's because of Stevie J.'s brash negotiating tactics, continual refusal to hand over iPod cash, or oceanic persistence in keeping tracks locked in at $0.99. Whatever the reason, we can't say we're all that surprised; Universal's been a pain in Apple's ass for years now. So what's the end result? Well, Universal music will still be sold through iTunes at will, so that means consumers can keep buying tracks for the time being, but Apple runs the risk of losing Universal's content on very short notice if the companies don't make happy with one another and put pen to paper once more.
Jilliane Velazco

Top music seller's store has no door - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

  • Apple Inc. has surpassed Wal-Mart to become America’s No. 1 music store, the first time that a seller of digital downloads has ever beaten the big CD retailers.
  • Video game companies and other software makers are selling more of their products as downloads rather than CDs.
  • Songs could be downloaded faster than movies or TV shows, both legally and illegally.
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  • devices such as Apple’s iPod made songs easy to listen to anywhere.
  • It said it counted every 12 singles sold as one album, and that Apple probably received a boost during the two months by people cashing in iTunes gift cards – which Wal-Mart and other retailers also sell – received during the holiday season.
  • Apple launched iTunes in 2003, creating an online business model for a music industry that was struggling with plummeting CD sales and online piracy. In addition to selling albums, iTunes offered hundreds of thousands of individual songs for 99 cents each. That was ideal for customers who wanted to buy hot singles or old favorites without buying the whole album.
  • it reported $808 million in revenue for a category that includes iTunes store sales, a 27% jump from the same quarter the previous year.
  • Although Apple has given the music industry a new way to sell songs, it has become so powerful that music companies have sought to help create and fortify potential iTunes rivals.
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    apple is the top seller of music; on and off the computer! =] apple overtakes wal-mart as the biggest US music seller
Jilliane Velazco

Digital Sales Not Enough to Save Music Industry, says JupiterResearch | Tekrati Researc... - 0 views

  • Digital music was a $1.3 billion business in 2007, but it still only comprised 10 percent of consumer music spending
  • compete with Apple and the future of music CD sales.
  • “The challenge remains for the industry to find new ways to compete with Apple, who remains the dominant player for portable media devices,”
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  • it will become even more critical to find new devices paradigms to capture consumer attention and new business models to sell content and services on those devices
  • iTunes and other online music retailers are also changing the way music is purchased. Hot and popular are now giving way to Independent artists who are just as likely and able to make their material available on iTunes and other internet resources.
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    apple is the most popular device/music player and it is hard for other companies to compete with apple and itunes
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Japan's Music Industry Wants Fee on Sales of Latest Digital Players - New York Times - 0 views

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    japanese fees on "devices using earlier digital recording technologies, like cd's and minidisc recorders". there is a japanese version of itunes
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Despite Drop in CD Sales, Music Industry Is Upbeat - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • rising revenue from songs and albums bought on the Internet failed to offset the consumer flight from CDs.
  • CD sales was down 13 percent last year compared with 2005
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  • online sales of singles from services such as Apple's iTunes were up 60 percent last year.
  • Apple reported the sale of its 100 millionth iPod.
  • The music industry has blamed piracy for the dive in CD sales and began suing downloaders and the file-sharing services in retaliation in 2003
  • the RIAA is about to sue students for illegal downloading.
  • CD sales peaked in 2000, with the major labels shipping $13 billion worth of discs to stores.
  • Sales dropped about 8 percent each following year, until a 2 percent uptick from 2003 to 2004.
  • resumed in 2005 and hit its lowest point in more than a decade last year, when music companies shipped $9.2 billion in CDs.
  • Last year, sales of albums bought on the Internet shot up 103 percent compared with 2005
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    cd sales have gone down because of online piracy, etc.
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