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Nokia Music Store to outrun iTunes in Europe?

Categories: Apple, Nokia,
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 5:30 AM

Nokia Music Store is slowly approaching the iTunes numbers in Europe. Apparently, out of about 4.3 million people who actually download/pay music in five major European markets (UK, France, Italy, Spain and Germany), 28% get their songs via iTunes, while 22% (0.94 million) do that from Nokia’s store.

4.3 million people, what? And here’s an even weirder number – only 23.8% of mobile users in the five mentioned countries have listened to the music on their mobile phone. As for the U.S., the percentage of people that have played music using their mobile phone is even lower – 13.2%. Does the rest still uses dedicated music players or what? Virtually every mobile phone, even some low-end models, can play music files so why aren’t people using them is beyond me.

Anyway, it’s good to see iTunes is getting some serious competition in parts of the world. I assume, Nokia’s figures are even better in Asia, but we don’t have numbers to prove that.

In the meantime, you can check out comScore’s full press release with additional details.

[Via: Unwired View]

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • Greg Fisher

    Nokia's music service is fantastic. Why change? I won't.

  • Interested Party

    It is no wonder people download with Nokia as Itunes are too greedy and will not let you output mobile phone content to tv. They need to get less greedy or they will go under.