iTunes Music Store 7th largest music retailer

The iTunes Music Store has tied with Tower Records to be the 7th largest retailer of music in Q3 (that's the third quarter of this year). It soundly trounced brick and mortar outlets like Sam Goody and Borders.

Keep in mind that NPD divided the number of tracks sold on the iTMS by 12 to correlate them with physical CD sales, and there was no word if freebie tracks were included in this metric.

Either way, though, I think this iTunes Music Store is really going to take off one day.

[via iLounge]