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News - 06/07/2005
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iTunes More Popular Than Most Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Services - NPD Reports says
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 iTunes, the best iPod companion, receives great scores from users, P2P users too!
NPD Group has been surveying almost all digital music services, at last the most popular, and Apple iTunes Music Store comes second... to none (paying) music service.
iTunes is proving to be a formidable competitor against free peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, The NPD Group reported today. According to information from NPD’s MusicWatch Digital service, Apple iTunes’s industry-leading a-la-carte download store tied with LimeWire as the second-most-popular digital music service in March, 2005. Both iTunes and LimeWire were used by 1.7 million households.
As a result, here comes the billboard of online music stores:
The following list shows the top ten digital music services, based on the number of households acquiring a digital song in March 2005:
1. WinMX (2.1 million)
2. iTunes (1.7 million)
3. LimeWire (1.7 million)
4. Kazaa
5. BearShare
6. Ares Galaxy
7. Napster
8. Morpheus
9. Real Player Store
10. iMesh
Sources: NPD MusicWatch Digital information is collected continuously from the Windows PCs of 40,000 online panelists balanced to represent the online population of PC households. Information reported compares March 2005 to March 2004 household activity of consumers who acquired a digital song file from either a paid digital download service or a free P2P file-sharing service.
Looks like legal music has become really appealing, isn't it?
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Source:  NPD Group
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