Apple Sells 3.3 Million Songs on iTunes

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Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday said it has sold 3.3 million songs on its iTunes online music store since that platform's relaunch one week ago, with nearly as many downloads of the new version of its music player software. The company also said users had downloaded more than 500,000 free songs during a promotion giving away tracks by popular artists including Courtney Love and Nelly Furtado.

The company also said users published more than 20,000 custom playlists to the music store in the week since it was upgraded with that new feature and others. Rob Schoeben, Apple's vice president of applications marketing, said Apple had seen 3 million downloads of iTunes 4.5, its music player software that includes the music store, since its release last week. The 3.3 million downloads, Schoeben said, compare to a prior peak of 2.7 million downloads in a week.

News source: Reuters

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#1 KevinRGood on 05 May 2004 - 19:34

Kazaa still beats the record for downloading songs!

#2 tylershaw on 05 May 2004 - 19:38

With all of the talk around raising the price of downloads I thinkn this is great. The record companies would be crazy to raise prices with things going the way they are now. If the price jumped to $1.20 song what do you think the DL rate would be?

(2 replies) #3 sadatkarim on 05 May 2004 - 21:00

congrats to iTunes!

#3.1 Huezo on 05 May 2004 - 22:55

I second that, iTMS kicks ass.

#3.2 STV on 06 May 2004 - 07:06

I am a napster user, but i must say that I am impressed by the number of songs they are pushing. in this case, I would have to commend apple for selling this many.

but i still prefer napster at this point.

STV

(2 replies) #4 Korgun on 06 May 2004 - 17:47

500,000 redeemed? Is it just me or is 500,000 just a little less than 100 million?

#4.1 dp123 on 07 May 2004 - 01:25

Ummm... learn to read. Apple is now giving away a new song every day to encourage people to visit the iTMS. There is no limit or goal in regard to this.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the Pepsi promotion to give away 100 million downloads. (It did after all end last week and we've had several announcements pointing out the projected numbers and numbers achieved.)

#4.2 mipra on 14 May 2004 - 01:53

that's a lot of zeros..aint it?

#5 mipra on 14 May 2004 - 01:45

dang..now MS can bites their finger

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