November 22, 2005: Two-and-a-half years after opening its virtual doors, the iTunes Music Store enters the list of top 10 U.S. music retailers.
While iTunes sales numbers can’t yet match the selling power of established retail giants like Walmart, Best Buy and Circuit City (or fellow tech company Amazon), this milestone nonetheless represents big news for Apple — and digital music sales as a whole.
iTunes makes Apple a major player in music biz
The surprising figures came from data-analysis firm The NPD Group. It reported that, in the third quarter of 2005, Apple cracked the list of top U.S. music retailers. While the report gave no exact figures, it confirmed that Apple’s iTunes model was very much in the ascendancy.
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