Holy crap. It’ll be interesting to see how long they can stay there w/ Amazon’s drm-free store coming on strong. I’m already checking Amazon first; Apple needs to get the publishers to go drm-free in the iTunes store, yesterday.

iTunes now number two music retailer in the US | MacMinute News:
February 26, 2008 – 10:24 EST

Apple today announced that iTunes is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group. The company also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, with 20 million songs sold on Christmas Day 2007 alone, and offers the world’s largest music catalog of over six million songs from all of the major and thousands of independent labels, says Apple.