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To: Mason Barge who wrote (45)	11/7/2003 11:52:45 AM
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Apple: ITunes Outsold Napster 5 - 1 in 1st Week By REUTERS Published: November 6, 2003 Filed at 6:17 p.m. ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. said on Thursday that its iTunes online music store sold five times more songs than rival Napster's service in its first week of operation. Cupertino, California-based Apple said that consumers purchased and downloaded 1.5 million songs from its iTunes Music Store during the same period that Napster reported selling 300,000 songs. <snip> The company also cited data from Nielsen SoundScan showing that Apple's online music store had more than 80 percent of the market for legally purchased downloads last week. More than 17 million songs have been bought on iTunes at 99 cents each since the popular service was introduced in April. <snip> nytimes.com