Hope For Amazon? iTunes Sales Flat (AAPL, AMZN)

Peter Kafka | January 15, 2008 1:23 PM

Steve Jobs is rolling out upgrade and upgrade and stat after stat at MacWorld, but we are already struck by one: The 4 billion songs sold via iTunes. As impressive as that number sounds, it should be disappointing for Apple and may be encouraging for Amazon, which is trying to break into the digital music business that Apple dominates: Over the last six months, Apple's music sales are flattening.

At last year's MacWorld, Jobs said AAPL had sold 2 billion songs, a billion-song increase over the previous year. And at the end of July 2007, the company said it had sold 3 billion songs, meaning it had sold a billion songs in seven months -- about twice the rate of the previous year. But the 4 billion Jobs just announced means that iTunes sales have stalled in the past five months.

If you are Amazon, or any of the big music labels that wants AMZN's non-Apple music store to succeed, you could interpret those stats as heartening: Maybe Amazon is stealing Apple customers with its DRM-free digital downloads. The only stat we've seen on Amazon's store is an early guesstimate from Billboard, which pegged the company's digital music market share at 3%, just a few months into a soft launch. An alternate, depressing conclusion: If Apple's sales are flat, that means everyone's sales are flat, or worse.

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Date Sales(mm)Days Chg(S) Sales/day
6/1/03 5
9/1/03 10 92 5 54
12/1/03 25 91 15 165
3/15/04 50 105 25 238
7/1/04 100 108 50 463
10/14/04 150 105 50 476
12/16/04 200 63 50 794
1/24/05 250 39 50 1282
3/2/05 300 37 50 1351
5/10/05 400 69 100 1449
7/18/05 500 69 100 1449
2/15/06 1000 212 500 2358
9/12/06 1500 209 500 2392
1/10/07 2000 120 500 4167
7/31/07 3000 202 1000 4950
1/15/08 4000 168 1000 5952

Sales per day has been increasing, so iTunes is still growing, but has slowed some.

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I'm having a little trouble following your math... If Apple announced 2B songs at Macworld last year, which was early January, and then announced 3B at the end of July 2007, that's a billion songs in *seven* months, not six. So, if Apple is announcing 4B songs today, since the end of July 2007, that's just over *five* months, which means iTunes is still growing, albeit at a slower rate.

There's a difference between a decline in the rate of growth, and sales being flat.

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