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iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

In a new promotion, Apple is giving away iPods, Powerbooks, and a 10,000 song iTMS gift certificate in recognition of it's approach to the 100 million song mark.

When the number of songs downloaded from Apples iTunes Music Store crosses 95 million, Apple will begin the countdown to 100 million songs by giving away 50 special 20GB iPodsone to the purchaser of each 100,000th song downloaded between 95 million and 100 million songs. In addition, the person who downloads the 100 millionth song will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for the iPod and the opportunity to create a Celebrity Playlist to be published on the iTunes Music Store.

As of this posting, the store had sold 94,496,906 songs.

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Chip NoVaMac Avatar
285 months ago
Neat promotion. I wonder how many hackers are going to try and figure out just how to be the big winner.
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