iPod sales reached a four-year low

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According to coach outlet reports Sunday, the latest data show that Apple's iPod music player sales in the second quarter of this year, only 9 million, the figure was a bit worried for music companies.

Latest data show that the second quarter of this year, iPod sales of 900 million units since 2006, the lowest quarterly sales record. iPod in October 2001 listing, the current trend, iPod gradual demise. For Apple, this is no need to worry, because the iPhone and iPad is already come from behind. But for music companies, this is not a good sign.

For music companies(coach bags), they rely on iPod and other digital music player to attract users to buy digital music, either from Apple's iTunes Music Store, Napster, or eMusic, or other service providers. But with the decline in sales of these players, and even the gradual demise, people may no longer download music from digital music stores.

International Federation of Phonographic Association (hereinafter referred to as "IFPI") is also acknowledged thatcheap coach bags, digital music sales rose started to slow down. IFPI to a report released earlier this year showed that in 2009 CD sales fell by 12.7% in the loss of 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in value. But digital music sales grew by only 9.2%, the value increase of less than 400 million U.S. dollars.

IFPI spokesman Alex Jacob said: "Although the digital music downloading is still growing, but the increase was lower than a few years ago."

With the decline in iPod sales, digital music sales may be slowed down, because the iPod digital music downloads to promote the core power. IFPI figures show that since 2004 the global launch of Apple's iTunes music store, the global digital music sales began to steadily rise.