According to today’s Metro, iTunes online music store in Japan sold more than 1 million songs in its first four days, in the world’s second largest music market! Apple’s iTunes launched in Japan last Thursday, with the market’s largest library of more than 1 million songs and prices that undercut the competition.
I’m just wondering how HMV and other giant music stores are going to react to this. God knows what’s going to happen to their market share in a few years.
Scaryyy …
Scary for whom? Not for music buyers, I’m sure. After years of being stuck with mediocre, ‘filler’ songs on many artists’ albums and paying hefty prices for CDs, now the general public has a choice to listen to song samples on iTunes and buy only the ones they actually like. Music stores like HMV, Tower, and Virgin will become things of the past in the near future. Nostalgic, I know, but that’s new technology for you.