iTunes as Online music Market Leader

iTunes as Online music Market Leader - Since the shifting of WalMart in 2008 and then as a pe-the biggest music retail, Apple has been in furthering the distance difference in sales of their music. Now the combination of Walmart and BestBuy though, which is in the next rankings, was unable to compete with Apple's music sales figures.

iTunes own controlled more than half of digital music sales in the United States.

According to a report that quoted from Billboard, May 24, 2010, the market share of Apple's music sales increased more than 5 percent, at 21.4 percent in 2008 from a 26.7 percent in the next year. These figures are rising more than doubled their market share than in the United States in 2007, when the new iPhone is announced.

The expansion of Apple in digital music sales themselves take place when a decrease in sales of music by your mobile carrier. The market share of music Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and AT & T drops from 6.6 percent in 2008 to just 4.9 percent in 2009.

This makes the mobile operator must present the latest buzz in the market for music, which is generally done through ringtone sales.

Apple's own made two breakthroughs: offers affordable and provides valuable ringtone software free in the iTunes, which allows users to create own ringtone. This step is accused as one of the causes of the decline in business ringtone for 2-3 dollars per music mobile phone operator has to offer.

Outside sales of digital music, music sales through the physical media even shows a trend of more severe. The market share of sales of CDs and other music format through conventional outlets-outlet from 57.5 percent in fall 2008 to 49,3% in the last year.

That is, in the United States, digital music sales are already greater than music in physical formats, and half sold through Apple's iTunes Store.

Walmart, the largest music CD sellers suffered a decline in market share from 15 percent to 12.5 percent in 2008 and 2009. As for the BestBuy down from 10.7 percent in the period to 8.7. But BestBuy is already trying to enlarge their market share by acquiring the business of digital media valued at 121 million dollars worth of Napster AS of 2008.