Despite recent negative press about Microsoft’s new media player, it is now ranked No. 2 behind rival Apple’s iPod, according to statistics released by the NPD Group today, reported by both MacNN and AppleInsider.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Zune has “supplanted SanDisk’s Sansa for the distant No. 2 spot, claiming nine percent of unit sales and 13 percent of the total dollar share during its first week on store shelves.