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iTMS Downloads Top 200 Million

Thursday December 16, 2004 7:15 am PST by mudbug
In a press release, Apple announced that the iTMS has successfully sold over 200 million tracks, with the second 100 million coming since July 12, 2004. The 200 millionth song was part of The Complete U2 and was purchased by Ryan Alekman from Belchertown, MA.

iTunes has made it easy to give the gift of music this holiday season with iTunes prepaid cards that are available from retailers like Amazon.com, Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Kroger, RadioShack, 7-Eleven, Target, as well as Apples online store and Apples retail stores and offer $15 or $25 of music on the iTunes Music Store. Gift givers can also send iTunes gift certificates in amounts from $10 to $200 by email or regular mail, and can print out these gift certificates in color right on their computer for the perfect last minute stocking stuffer.


iTunes has now sold over 200 million songs, making it the worlds number one online music store by far, said Steve Jobs, Apples CEO. Were thrilled to be making music an even more popular gift this holiday season with iTunes and iPod.

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MattG
94 months ago
All the "Complete U2" sales must have helped a lot ;)
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plasticparadox
94 months ago
Congrats. I guess the closest competitor would be Napster?
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dobbin
94 months ago
WOW!

Makes my 10 or so songs seem so insignificant. Then again it would only be 199,999,990 without me! :D
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bpd115
94 months ago
I wonder if they count the free download of the week with that?
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Stella
94 months ago
200 million. Good.

However is the purchase rate speeding up or slowing down ( taking into account the new stores ) ?
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iGary
94 months ago
I do hope this makes Bill Gates squirm.


I really, really do. :D
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Mechcozmo
94 months ago
Yay! :D:D:D

I wonder how well the MS store is doing.... :confused:
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JGowan
94 months ago

I wonder if they count the free download of the week with that?

No... it just for songs purchased.
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cxny
94 months ago
I think what we have here is the "Moore's Law" of music downloads. Let's see if Job's Law holds up for 40 years as well! Of course that may entail the entire planet listening to 10 terrabyte iPods each with several billion dollars worth of ITMS dowloads.........
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jbembe
94 months ago
O.K. who's the ambitious soul who's going to plot iTMS sales over time to show us how the curve is progressing!!?? :D
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