online music sales

from macworld.co.uk

Apple remains the leading US music retailer The latest NPD MusicWatch figures confirm Apple's iTunes Store's US achievement of surpassing music sales at Wal-Mart earlier this year weren't a blip, but a trend.

from appleinsider.com

Apple announced recently that customers on its iTunes Store have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs to date.

from ilounge.com

Record labels are considering a move towards finally offering unrestricted MP3 music files, according to industry insiders. The New York Times reports that executives of technology companies, in attendance at the annual Midem global trade show for the music industry, are apparently aware of “at least one of the four major record companies [that] could move toward the sale of unrestricted digital files in the MP3 format within months.”