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iTunes Sells 1.5 Million Songs Last Week

Thursday November 6, 2003 12:27 pm PST by Arnold Kim
Apple announced that music fans purchased and downloaded 1.5 million songs from Apple's iTunes Music Store over the past week, which is 5 times more than Napster's 300,000 downloads during their debut week.



Apple's initial sales numbers after iTunes for Windows' release showed 1 million songs sold in the initial 3.5 days after the introduction of iTunes for Windows. The 1.5 million last week represents an increase from the 600,000/week Apple reported seling to Mac-users alone prior to the Windows release.

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jcshas
108 months ago
ITMS Rules! Way to go Apple!
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gwuMACaddict
108 months ago
awesome- i have to admit, this is catching on alot better than i expected. way to go steve-o

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meta-ghost
108 months ago
300,000 is more than i would have expected for one week of napster.
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Kid Red
108 months ago
According to C/Net-299,923 of those songs were download by the RIAA to help initiate the concept.
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tgrundke
108 months ago
Actually, if Apple normally sells 600,000 songs per week to Macintosh users and the number increased to 1.5 million during the first week of Windows use, that means Apple did a little better than doubling its volume.

That is, unless I am reading this wrong and Apple has been tracking Windows music sales separately from Macintosh music sales. But I doubt that is the case.

While that number seems impressive, it also means that the penetration into the Windows market has been relatively soft thus far. The plus: lots of side for upward movement. The negative: Apple didn't make as big a splash (sales wise) as I thought.
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jxyama
108 months ago
300k for napster, eh? i might be mistaken, but this is the first time i've ever heard a "solid" sales number from vendors other than iTMS.

anyone know about buymusic.com? others?

iTMS has set the standard... we shall see how napster will do when samsung portable player is released.
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alia
108 months ago
This is great news, though it shouldn't be a surprise. iTunes is by far the best solution out there, and all the Windows users with ipods are probably going nuts over it.

I, myself, must have purchased at least $70 worth of music on iTunes since the Windows version came out, and most of that was on my old Windows machine.

Alia
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mrsebastian
108 months ago
go apple!!! i wonder what the actual profit apple makes off of each song?
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gwuMACaddict
108 months ago

Originally posted by tgrundke

That is, unless I am reading this wrong and Apple has been tracking Windows music sales separately from Macintosh music sales. But I doubt that is the case.


can they even do this? i figured that apple was tracking sales from pc and from mac differently- so they would know where to advertise, etc...

i would be interested to see the different numbers from each platform and to see where the increases were the largest
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jamesatzones
108 months ago
Awesome job Apple... I am going to have to add to my collection tonight. Napster has that new deal with Penn State, seems rather foolish to me.

http://news.com.com/2100-1027-5103292.html
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