Apple’s iTunes store continues to grow into a world-dominating resource for legal music downloads. The music-download giant now stands as the second most-popular music retailer in the US, trailing only Wal-Mart.
iiTunes has more than 50 million customers all keen to get their hands on the latest legal music downloads of fresh new tracks and reissued classics. To date, Apple claims that more than four billion legal music downloads have been sold through iTunes – that’s insane.
iTunes also boasts a huge catalogue of more than six million songs. According to NPD, almost half of all US teens did not buy a CD in 2007, instead choosing to get music downloads either through services like iTunes, or else filesharing programs like Ares or Limewire.
Legal music downloads now account for about 10% of all the music acquired in the US. The number of people buying legal music downloads increased by five million to 29 million this year compared with last, but is still dwarfed by the number of people using different free music download software
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