RSSiTunes Sells Three Billionth Song
By the Betanews Staff | Published July 31, 2007, 10:25 AM
Apple said Tuesday that it had surpassed three billion songs downloaded from its iTunes Music Store, further extending its lead as the most popular online digital music store. Currently, iTunes contains about five million songs, plus about 550 television shows and 500 movies. It is also the third biggest music store overall, recently passing both Amazon and Target in music sales.
Apple has sold a billion songs in a little under seven months. It took eleven months to get from one to two billion, and several years to sell the first billion tracks. "We'd like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes.
"It is also the third biggest music store overall, recently passing both Amazon and Target in music sales."
They're counting each song though as a sell. Amazon.com sells the entire album. They should just count album sales on iTunes and then compare that to Amazon.com.
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|They do. They count every 12 songs sold as one album since most people by individual tracks, not whole albums.
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|That would make itunes all the more impressive. Most people buy albums to get a few songs, maybe 3-4 max, off the whole disk.
Apple is selling many more individual sales than amazon/walmart.
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|I wonder if it was an Eminem song. :)
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