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ddawg
4th February 2007, 09:57
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Apple's iTunes music sales collapses in H1 -survey (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=COMSRV&storyid=2006-12-13T083058Z_01_L13130241_RTRIDST_0_APPLE-ITUNES.XML&from=business)
Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:31am ET

AMSTERDAM, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Sales at Apple's online music shop iTunes Music Store fell off a cliff in the first six months of 2006, according to a recent survey.

Since January 2006 the number of monthly iTunes transactions has declined 58 percent, while the average size per purcahse declined by 17 percent, leading to a 65-percent overall drop in monthly iTunes revenue, U.S. market research group Forrester said in a survey among North American consumers.


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