Jeff Campbell
08-19-2009, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10311907-37.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple' target='_blank'>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-1...subj=News-Apple</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Faced with heat from iTunes and other digital downloads, the nearly-three-decade-old music CD is slowly melting away."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1250699714.usr105634.jpg" /></em></p><p>The <a href="http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_090818.html" target="_blank">report</a> from NPD Group details just how much iTunes has turned on the heat. iTunes has captured 25% of the total market for music sales in the US (Wal-Mart has 14%), but in the digital arena has almost 70% of the market. The next closest in digital sales? Amazon with 8%. Digital sales are only 35% of the overall market so far, up from 20% in 2007, but they expect by 2010 that digital sales will nearly equal the amount of physical sales, ie CDs. </p>