iTunes sells 2 Million Songs

Well, I have about 20 songs to that 2 million. Way to go Apple!

Fantastic news...think it is just a shame that as yet the release of the service outside of the US seems to be totally up in the air.

Looks like a fantastic service, but I'm afraid as soon as M$ nick the idea and make it a worldwide concern, all Apple's hard work will be in vein quite frankly...in my opinion, an international release is far more important than a windows release.

I hope this filters through to the NASDAQ
Go go go AAPL.

And Merrill, go and jump out of the window
:-))

Sweet. I'm up to 30 songs. Just bought the newly offered Fischerspooner album last night. Perfect music to get me in the mood for the Matrix Reloaded preview I'm watching tonight. Tonight I might buy the new Album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. See, most people were saying that he 1 million in the first week was just temporary enthusiasm for the new service. But I think the service will really hit its stride when people start buying from the iTunes store when they want a newly released album. Did you check out the pre-release tracks they're offering now? Schweeeeeet!!!

cool,
but imagine the number of songs if the service is aviable worldwide not just the us, and for every pc user apple/wintel/linux

They could sell more if they greatly expand the catalog.

My biggest fear is that some of the labels are using the apple music store as test waters; if it floats, they will try it themselves. What they miss totally is, people go to the store that has ALL the music, representing all the labels. Even then, you see AOL for example, pushing download exclusives. Competition is going to increase with labels mistaking details of the business models such as one click and tying into jukebox software being the magic (when it is the conglomeration of inventory that does it),

I get the feeling that more is being added (or pulled) than iTunes Music Store is letting us know about in the weekly emails. I would like those emails to be more complete and detailed if this is so.

Originally posted by Swinny
Fantastic news...think it is just a shame that as yet the release of the service outside of the US seems to be totally up in the air.

Looks like a fantastic service, but I'm afraid as soon as M$ nick the idea and make it a worldwide concern, all Apple's hard work will be in vein quite frankly...in my opinion, an international release is far more important than a windows release.

You'lls ee an international release by the end of the year. All of the labels are working on international licencing issues and Apple has already set up a liason for European labels who are interested. I imagine Asia will soon have an Apple Music Man too.

just think by years end you can use itunes to download any music from any contry. it will change the way we listen to music. more international music well become popular in america. just think that one track from Bali that you cant get here in america, but itunes has it... ohhhh ahhhhh... i am wetting in my pants:D

First, this is great, even astonishing news. The fact that there wasn't a huge second-week dropoff indicates that people already may be looking at iTMS beyond the novelty factor. As the catalog is increased (and this needs to happen quickly), the numbers could even *increase* as people start to habitually turn to iTMS to check for their favorite tunes.

As far as beating Microsoft (and others) to the punch, there is hope for optimism here as well. Aside from the server farms, which Apple will lease from Akami, the only barrier to international release is contracts. This is an enormous barrier, however, because of the amount of legal work involved and in the convincing of record company executives to bet their future on this idea. On the former point, Apple has a small head start but famously efficient attorneys. On the latter, Apple may have a big advantage. Even if Microsoft produced a software/server solution tomorrrow, it would face the same challenge as Apple in convincing record companies to license their IP. Here, Microsoft's reputation as a company that selfishly bullies its business partners could really come back to haunt it.

Given that the service is about 4X more popular than Apple predicted, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has greatly accelerated the timetable for iTunes for Windows development. My guess is that this will be ready to ship before all of the necessary agreements have been forged. But that situation favors Apple, if narrowly.

elo

Anyone know if CD sales have dropped at all? just curious...