iTunes Sells 100 Millionth Song

[DarthButcher]

Source: MSNBC.MSN.COM

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc. has sold 100 million songs on its iTunes Music Store, solidifying its position as the leading legal music download site, the maker of the iPod and Macintosh computer said Monday.

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When Cupertino, California-based Apple launched the music store last April, Chief Executive and co-founder Steve Jobs set a goal of selling 100 million songs in one year.

The company missed that mark, however, selling more than 70 million songs in the first 12 months. Tracks cost 99 cents eachand can be played on Apple’s popular iPod and iPod mini digital music players as well as on either a Macintosh or Windows personal computer.


"iTunes quickly outpaced the competition and is far and away the world's number one online music service," Jobs said in a statement.

Apple, which reports third-quarter financial results on Wednesday, has already sold more than 3 million iPods, which range in cost from $249 to $499, depending on their capacity.

Apple has been selling virtually every iPod it has made, but it has a hard time keeping up with demand for the iPod mini. Hitachi, which makes the 1-inch 4-gigabyte hard drives for the iPod mini, is boosting production of the drives by the end of the year.

The iPod mini will be available internationally on July 24. Previously, Apple had said it would start selling the device internationally in April, but delayed the introduction because of tight supplies of the drives.

The 100 millionth song, "Somersault (Dangermouse remix)" by Zero7, was purchased on Sunday by Kevin Britten, 20, of Hays, Kansas. In accordance with a promotion Apple announced recently, Britten will receive a 17-inch PowerBook notebook computer, a 40-gigabyte iPod and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs.

Jobs himself telephoned Britten to congratulate him, an Apple spokeswoman said.

Last month, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store in Britain, France and Germany, selling more than 800,000 tracks in its first week.

[Parrakarry]

Man, I wish I had bought the 100 millionth. That'd be insane.

[c_jks]

WHAT?! That's crazy...I would have done that if I had known...or, at least tried.

[Jingle Jangles]

Buy songs? Why would anyone want to do that…

[-=Game^Master=-]

^ some people have issues with legality, ad they'll do anything they can to keep their operations legal, which is not really my game [img]smile.gif[/img] .

I don't even know if I could use the full 10,000 this guy was given... that's crazy.

[Parrakarry]

On my hard drive, I have 45 gigs of music... but only about 8500 songs. I got a few long ones

[Erdawn Il Deus]

I laugh at you Americans and your illegal Kazaa.

[homer]

Who said we still don't use it?

[Jingle Jangles]

Originally posted by Erdawn in the Hat came back:
I laugh at you Americans and your illegal Kazaa.

I wouldn't touch Kazaa with a 40 foot pole.
I prefer virus-free, trojan-free, porn-free cpu-to-cpu fileshare.
Meh, its only illegal IF you get caught.

[ July 21, 2004, 02:19 AM: Message edited by: Northern Internet Xpedition ]

[Erdawn Il Deus]

Kazaa Lite makes sucking money from celebrity music artists all the more fun!

[homer]

I've used the normal for 2 years. I'm still good.

[mushroom]

I need to find a way to hack iTunes.

[Scripture]

Good luck with it. I'll make sure to reserve you a nice cell on Block C. They usually don't them out easily, so consider yourself lucky.

Anyway, I am one of those legitimate people who utilize iTunes for their musical needs, and their friends for everything else. Yes, the selection is somewhat limited, but that never hurt anybody. Except Dave Matthews Band fans and many others. Many, many others.

[Gamer Chris]

Kazaa Lite works just fine...

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~Gamer Chris

[mushroom]

Shareaza's pretty cool too.

[Ted Nugent]

haha look at all those suckers when they could just get them for free on soulseek

i still buy cds though