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Apple Computer on Thursday announced plans to celebrate its iTunes Music Store by giving away songs and other prizes, as the service nears the 100 million download mark.

Apple will give away fifty 20GB iPods, one to the purchaser of each 100,000th song downloaded between 95 million and 100 million songs. The number of songs downloaded from the online music shop is expected to cross the 95 million mark this week.

The person who downloads the 100 millionth song will get a 17-inch PowerBook notebook, a 40GB iPod and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs.

Wow, great giveaways. Does the counter on Apple's web site has anything to do with encouraging people to download more? I wouldn't know... Anyway, thanks xStainDx for the news.

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(6 replies) #1 Panorama on 01 Jul 2004 - 18:33

This is cool! Too bad iTMS isn't available in Canada.

#1.1 Help on 01 Jul 2004 - 18:45

I share your pain.

#1.2 Sydd on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:34

yea, it sucks...why does canada always have to be last?

#1.3 jugaaru on 01 Jul 2004 - 20:17

They don't even have Itunes Store for Canada.

#1.4 Coolme on 01 Jul 2004 - 20:19

That reminds me of MTV. MTV's latest international station was in Canada. (Meaning that MTV was all over the world before it came to Canada.)

#1.5 andrewfee on 01 Jul 2004 - 22:05

Don't worry, you're not missing out on much - the European iTunes is crap compared to the American one, it's not got nearly as many songs available.

#1.6 m_cochegrus on 01 Jul 2004 - 22:48

Same thing in Mexico, shame it doesn't work here

(3 replies) #2 thekid7590 on 01 Jul 2004 - 18:41

i want those 10000 songs

#2.1 monkeyman_67156 on 01 Jul 2004 - 20:52

I have 10000.

#2.2 ben_b on 01 Jul 2004 - 21:52

Did you get them all from iTunes Music Store? *goes off looking how many I have*

#2.3 monkeyman_67156 on 02 Jul 2004 - 13:22

Of course not. I don't have $10000 to spend on music.

#3 sadatkarim on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:00

The person who downloads the 100 millionth song will get a 17-inch PowerBook notebook, a 40GB iPod and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs.

Im going to kill the grandmother who wins that.

#4 ben_b on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:09

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(1 reply) #5 Post-It Note on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:10

"...and sales slow down to a crawl as people await the 95 million mark to be broken before buying songs."

#5.1 Krankerz on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:34

...no kidding. I'm holding off myself.

(5 replies) #6 Raum on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:13

I don't know about all of you, but I think it's kind of lame when they do things like this and the Pepsi thing, then go boast about how many songs they've sold. That's like Coke donation 2 billion bottles of Dasani bottles water to poor African children and then saying their water has sold the most and is therefore the most popular.

#6.1 NinjaMonkey82 on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:28

Considering they didn't get that many downloads from the Pepsi giveaway I don't see it being a big deal. And even if you subtract the free songs they gave away through Pepsi it would still beat the others. But while you are at it you'd have to subtract the free songs Napster gave out before they launched wasn't it like 3 or 5 free songs per person?

#6.2 jameseuk on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:28

ahh the cancer water

#6.3 BTallack on 01 Jul 2004 - 21:14

Pepsi did pay for those songs, so techincally they were still sold.

#6.4 ben_b on 01 Jul 2004 - 21:54

Good point BTallack.

#6.5 roadwarrior on 02 Jul 2004 - 01:01

Promotional items generally aren't counted in with regular sales. I remember reading somewhere that Apple didn't count the (admittedly few) Pepsi downloads towards their totals. Heck, I never even saw a single iTunes Pepsi anywhere around my area. I know of lots of other people who had the same problem. It seems that Pepsi really dropped the ball with their distributors.

(3 replies) #7 Dazzla on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:19

Holy ****, that top prize is phenomenal!

#7.1 Krankerz on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:36

No ****...they'll be out of pocket around $13,000...it's incredible that they can do that. Apple must be really financially stable right now.

#7.2 oik on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:55

posting multi-million dollar profits & not having any debts? maybe my definition of financially stable differs from yours

#7.3 threetonesun on 01 Jul 2004 - 20:56

lol, it doesn't cost Apple nearly that much.

(2 replies) #8 jameseuk on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:29

Quote:
Wow, great giveaways. Does the counter on Apple's web site has anything to do with encouraging people to download more?

Gee ya think?

#8.1 ben_b on 01 Jul 2004 - 21:55

That counter isn't live though

#8.2 jagedEdge on 01 Jul 2004 - 23:41

Well that would make it too easy, wouldn't it? They update it in increments.

(2 replies) #9 Fonze on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:47

i also hear they are giving out 5 golden tickets in laptop wrappers to see the secret apple factory

#9.1 ben_b on 01 Jul 2004 - 21:56

And where'd you hear this?

#9.2 hafu8 on 01 Jul 2004 - 23:15

I'd love to see good ol' Steve stroll around his factory with creepy singing iOompaLoompas wondering around behind him

(3 replies) #10 oik on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:54

damn, i wish there was some way to know exactly when to buy the song.

#10.1 xStainDx on 01 Jul 2004 - 19:57

The counter is on the apple.com

#10.2 oik on 01 Jul 2004 - 20:14

i was hoping for something more... accurate?

like steve jobs im'ing me saying "i locked everyone out of the store but you! go get the 100 millionth song!"

#10.3 IcEr5K on 01 Jul 2004 - 21:23

The counter isn't real time.

(2 replies) #11 Blackbox on 01 Jul 2004 - 20:08

I will laugh when the downloaded song count stays at 99,999,998 for three days

#11.1 dp123 on 01 Jul 2004 - 21:15

That doesn't make sense. The big prize is at 100 million. Why would people hold off when they are two away from a new PB, 10000 free songs, an iPod, etc...?

Considering that they've sold over 250,000 in about 5 hours today, I can't imagine no one buying anything for three days.

#11.2 ben_b on 01 Jul 2004 - 21:58

If it was at 99,999,998 you'd just buy two songs.

(2 replies) #12 Hills420 on 02 Jul 2004 - 00:53

What the hell would you do with 10,000 songs? You'd go nuts.

#12.1 roadwarrior on 02 Jul 2004 - 01:04

I wonder if you could use those song credits to send gift certificates to other people?

#12.2 xStainDx on 02 Jul 2004 - 03:43

I'd buy everything I've ever broken.

#13 matric on 02 Jul 2004 - 08:04

Total Prize pool:
$100,000,000,000US

#14 McG on 02 Jul 2004 - 16:27

cool!

(1 reply) #15 Post-It Note on 02 Jul 2004 - 16:54

Note how the text above the counter says "Countdown to 100 million songs", when it is in fact counting up.

#15.1 chacho on 02 Jul 2004 - 19:34

oops!

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