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• October 5, 2007

  Time Warner Offering Monthly Music Download Service

  

  TIME WARNER CABLE has begun selling music to customers of its ROAD RUNNER Internet access service, reports KANSASCITY.COM. ROAD RUNNER subscribers can pay $9.95 a month for unlimited access to 3 million songs, ad-free radio and music videos, NEW … more »

• July 31, 2007

  iTunes: 3 Billion Downloads

  

  APPLE announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the ITUNES Store. ITUNES recently surpassed AMAZON and TARGET to become the third largest music retailer in the U.S., based on data from market-research firm NPD … more »

• June 22, 2007

  iTunes Music Store Now #3 Music Retailer

  

  APPLE INC.'s iTUNES MUSIC STORE is now the third-largest retailer of music in the U.S., with nearly 10% market share in the first quarter, according to a survey by NPD GROUP. iTUNES is third behind market leader WAL-MART STORES, with 15.8%, and … more »

• April 6, 2007

  U.S. Album Sales Down 17% In 1st Quarter

  

  U.S. album sales fell 17% in the first quarter as rising online piracy and fewer new hits accelerated the music industry's decline, reports BLOOMBERG NEWS. Retailers sold 117.1 million albums in the three months that ended APRIL 1. Although online … more »

• March 14, 2007

  Study: Legal Downloads Were Fastest-Growing Digital Music Category In '06

  

  A new study from consumer and retail information company THE NPD GROUP shows that the recording industry registered solid growth of digital music sales in 2006 from services like iTUNES, but it continues to fight against serious challenges from music … more »

• December 7, 2006

  Microsoft Expects To Sell 1 Million Zune Units By June

  

  MICROSOFT said it expects to sell more than 1 million ZUNE music players by the end of JUNE 2007, BBC NEWS reports. NPD GROUP recently reported that ZUNE's share of the U.S. digital music player market has been dropping and is down to 2%, but a MICROSOFT … more »

• September 12, 2006

  Report: UMG Inks Mobile Content Deal With MTV

  UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP (UMG) is expected to today announce a deal giving MTV NETWORKS a blanket license to its songs, videos and other content for mobile devices, reports the LOS ANGELES TIMES. The deal comes at a time when consumers have yet to … more »

• March 31, 2006

  RIAA Releases 2005 Shipment Numbers: Album Shipments Down 3.9%

  The RIAA today released its full-year retail shipment data for 2005. The overall approximate retail value of the industry, when combining shipments of physical products to various outlets with the estimated value of various digital revenue streams, was … more »

• October 19, 2005

  Sirius Retail Sales Soar In September

  SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO says that it had 56% of the retail sales market for satellite radio in SEPTEMBER, the highest monthly share to date for SIRIUS, based on figures released by the NPD GROUP. The company sold over 82,000 tuners at retail in the month, … more »