Oricon exits from Japanese PC music download market
November 1st, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 28 times, 1 so far today
Oricon exits from Japanese PC music download market
Apple iTunes has done it again. It has claimed its first victim in the Japanese market. Online digital music retailer Oricon has announced its exit from Japan’s PC music download market.
The company is best known as the publisher of music hit charts and it now plans to post links from its Web site to online music stores.
Oricon would also increase its focus on music downloads for mobile phones which dominates the sales of digital media in the country.
Oricon spokesman Teruaki Hidaka spoke on this new development: “The iPod has outrun us all. If iPod users could download music from our site, we may have waited to see if the tide turns from mobile phones to online downloads.”
iTunes however holds only about 5 percent of the online song distribution market in Japan. The market is dominated by services which deliver music on mobile phones. Apple does not do that yet.
Ankur Singh
Category: Apple, Brands, Business News, Digital Media, Digital Music - Players, Internet, Networks
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