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iTunes gains market share, as does Amazon, Rhapsody

11 October 2008 18:19 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 9 comments

According to a new study by Ipsos' TEMPO Digital Music Brandscape, despite the emergence of Amazon, Apple's iTunes platform still managed to gain market share in the increasingly crowded legal net music store crowd.

iTunes moved to 57 percent market share, up from 50 percent last year at this time, and Amazon's DRM-free store moved into second place with 9 percent share, a large number considering the store has not been open for even a year yet. Rhapsody, which recently turned DRM-free, jumped up in market share as well, from 4 percent last year to 7 percent now. Each continues to expand and is expected to take more market share, but at whose expense? It appears everyone but iTunes.

Other stores such as Napster, Yahoo Music and Walmart have taken a hit in market share, at the expense of the now clear leaders.

Can anyone overtake the DRM giant that is iTunes though?

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Leningrad (Member) 11 October 2008 22:27
See? Then why isnt the RIAA happy? [ + quote]
varnull (Inactive) 11 October 2008 22:31
Hi Lenin.. they are losing 50000% to the pirates.. don't you read their spiel? Free open source software = made by end users who want an application to work. The flower of carnage-shura no hana [ + quote]
13thHouR (Inactive) 12 October 2008 3:31
*Originally posted by Leningrad:* See? Then why isnt the RIAA happy? Because Apple told them that the were not going to price fix their media by selling "rip off" bundles, and by increasing the cost for popular media, this is why certain members of the RIAA blocked Apple from selling their media DRM free while opening up stores of their media without DRM at a lower cost. It's kinda like what Tesco's is doing in the UK, drive down prices to force out the competition then once they are the winners whack the prices right up. The RIAA - BPI - IFPI - CRIA - Ect - Ect Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI. The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX. Dont allow them to hide behind the trade body names, name and shame em. [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 12 October 2008 3:32
pensfan12 (Newbie) 12 October 2008 6:55
Well done to Amazon. They must be doing something right. [ + quote]
atomicxl (Junior Member) 12 October 2008 8:35
*Quote:* *Originally posted by Leningrad:* See? Then why isnt the RIAA happy? Because Apple told them that the were not going to price fix their media by selling "rip off" bundles, and by increasing the cost for popular media, this is why certain members of the RIAA blocked Apple from selling their media DRM free while opening up stores of their media without DRM at a lower cost. It's kinda like what Tesco's is doing in the UK, drive down prices to force out the competition then once they are the winners whack the prices right up. Everyone hates big business unless its Apple. Then all of the sudden DRM and monopolies are the coolest things in the world. Its good to see Amazon doing well. I download all my MP3s from their plus they sell physical CDs for like $9 or less. [ + quote]
engage16 (Member) 13 October 2008 0:12
I own an iPod... I do not purchase from iTunes though, the few songs I have gotten from there were from the promotional caps pepsi gave out a while back for free music from there... In which I immediatley burned the songs to a cd and reripped them to mp3's... [ + quote]
Leningrad (Member) 13 October 2008 12:14
*Originally posted by varnull:* Hi Lenin.. they are losing 50000% to the pirates.. don't you read their spiel? Well, i guess they cant get any satisfaction from even the slightest gains. Greedy assholes. [ + quote]
13thHouR (Inactive) 13 October 2008 13:43
*Quote:* Everyone hates big business unless its Apple. Then all of the sudden DRM and monopolies are the coolest things in the world. Its good to see Amazon doing well. I download all my MP3s from their plus they sell physical CDs for like $9 or less. Apple sucks too, just not as much as the MPAA/RIAA members this time The RIAA - BPI - IFPI - CRIA - Ect - Ect Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI. The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX. Dont allow them to hide behind the trade body names, name and shame em. [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 13 October 2008 13:51
Mez (Senior Member) 21 October 2008 8:56
13thHouR, I don't know Apple give them a run for their money in the race to be the most evil legal entity with a 'good name' on earth. [ + quote]