• CNET News.com, Friday, January 5, 2007 10:45 AM

Microsoft's Zune digital music player failed to crack the top 10 list of models sold at large retail stores during the holiday period from Black Friday through the end of the year, according to market researcher Current Analysis. Can you name nine other digital music players after Apple Computer's iPod?

Eight of the top 10 models were different variations of Apple's music player; the other two came from SanDisk, according to research, which tracked sales from Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Staples and RadioShack.

Because of Apple's continued dominance of the hard-drive based audio player market, Microsoft, at 12 percent of sales in December, actually captured a decent slice. Interestingly, the CNET report fails to mention Apple's overall percentage of holiday sales, though it's been estimated that Apple controls nearly 90 percent of the digital music player market.

Two large retailers are conspicuous by their absence from the Current Analysis data: Wal-Mart and Apple's own retail stores.

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