Read on BBC NEWS:

“According to figures from the Recording Industry Association of America, digital sales accounted for slightly more than 4% of the market during the first half of 2005, up from about 1.5% during the first half of 2004.More than seven out of 10 US digital music sales through PCs are through iTunes, a figure which grows when Apple Mac users are taken into account, NPD said.”

Digital sales are still small compared to overal music sales but Apple has such a comfortable startegic position towards the future of digital music distribution; now just think how this position will look when iTunes will really go mobile – and I don’t mean ROKR…