The Center For Media Research in the US (hence the surely freakish spelling of 'centre') has released a list of which music websites are getting the most traffic in the States and, while iTunes is the highest rating download platform, the fact both AOL and Yahoo have much higher audiences suggests that editorial based sites are big players in the online music space. The top 10 sites are as follows:
Site / Unique Audience / Active Reach
1. Yahoo! Music / 13,448,000 / 10.63%
2. AOL Music / 9,015,000 / 7.13%
3. iTunes / 6,308,000 / 4.99%
4. MSN Music / 3,174,000 / 2.51%
5. MTV Networks Music / 2,352,000 / 1.86%
6. BeMusic / 1,457,000 / 1.15%
7. A-Z Lyrics / 1,254,000 / 0.99%
8. Warner Music Group / 1,021,000 / 0.81%
9. MusicVideoCodes / 877,000 / 0.69%
10. Universal Music / 876,000 / 0.69%