iTunes Music Store Has Sold 20 Million Songs

Happy to add to those stats. I've purchased about thirty songs, just tonight (I love the new gift certificate plan - they were all on a b-day present). I figure I have purchased over 125 tracks, total. Maybe 150. Apple might really have a shot at hitting 100mill... keep your fingers crossed.

How many total tracks have other MR users purchased?

Dan

edit: typo in the original article... "According to the article, Apple's is up"

is this below or above their goal??

Twenty million is a great stat, but it doesn't say anything about how many are on each platform. I'm curious how this will jump when the advertising from Pepsi and Macdonalds (?) kicks in.

Oh, and I loved this quote:

The Macintosh audience may not be representative of the larger market, however, since Apple buyers tend to have higher incomes and greater technological sophistication than the PC audience as a whole, and have previously had less access to the free file-swapping services.

Wow, this is great! Yay for Apple Computer.

so the contract with Pepsi will represent equivalent of 3 years iTMS activity!!!!!
really good Apple

Originally posted by alset

How many total tracks have other MR users purchased?

Dan

Hey Dan, check out my Biggest Purchased Music thread here at MR. Just a hint, you know, since you were curious how many songs other MR members have purchased.

Here is the thread:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48033&highlight=purchased+music

That's about 1 million songs a week (7 weeks until now, 7,000,000 songs sold in that period of time). So it seems like the iTMS is getting more popular, probably because of the PC version being released (IIRC, it was at about a 600,000 song per week rate before iTunes for PC came out).

I am betting that the trand line is going to keep curving up as PC users catch on to ITMS. The big rush is going to come after the planned ad blitzes and giveaways from McDs and Pepsi .... this is gonna be good.

apple's goal was 100million in the first year

arn

Originally posted by Sayhey
since Apple buyers tend to have higher incomes and greater technological sophistication than the PC audience as a whole

Them's Fighting words. One may argue that apple customers have a lower technological sophistication than x86 users, hence their computers only come pre constructed, with everything already installed ready to used. No computing knowlege required. Apple could gain significant market share by sell in barebone, headless systems, (2 or 1 procs, 1 case and a motherboard) thus not pricing themselves out of the mass market.

However, Well done to the ITMS, even though when it comes to Australia, I won't touch it with a 40ft pole. (Big fan, of free downloads and Real CD's)