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Apple sells 3.3 million songs in one week

updated 12:30 pm EDT, Wed May 5, 2004

iTMS hits milestone


Apple today that it has sold 3.3 million songs from its third-generation iTunes Music Store since its launch one week ago and also said iTunes users have already published more than 20,000 iMixes--which have been rated over 50,000 times. In addition to the sold songs, iTunes users have also downloaded more than 500,000 free songs during Apple's week-long “Free Song of the Day” anniversary promotion. "Our third generation iTunes Music Store just blows away any other online music service," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With over 700,000 songs and innovative features like iMix, it's the easiest to use and most fun to use online music store in the world."


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  1. diskgolfking

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    05/05, 12:37pm | report spam | Reply |

    I wonder

    Since the store launched on Wednesday and the Pepsi promotion ended Friday, I wonder if the extra song "purchases" were simply people using their free Pepsi songs at the last minute.

  1. dwishbone

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    05/05, 12:52pm | report spam | Reply |

    gotta say it like steve-o

    in...the...world.

  1. cmoney

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    05/05, 12:52pm | report spam | Reply |

    ot: united miles

    one nice thing about sony's connect is being able to use united airline frequent flier miles to pay for songs. too bad i don't fly united and don't like minidisc/atrac/memory stick, etc. it would be nice to see an affiliation between apple and continental or american express.

    back on topic: i wonder how long before they hit the 100mil mark now. should come in a few months at this rate.

  1. absmiths

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    05/05, 12:59pm | report spam | Reply |

    Free songs

    Does this include free songs? The free songs look like purchased songs to the user - invoice, etc, so I wonder if this is included in the total "sold" count.

  1. piracy

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    05/05, 01:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: Free songs

    Learn how to read:

    "In addition to the sold songs, iTunes users have also downloaded more than 500,000 free songs during Apple's week-long “Free Song of the Day” anniversary promotion."

  1. Kenneth

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    05/05, 01:16pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: in the world

    Yeap.. US store represents the whole World.

    Well.. I used to use MiniDisc.. it was great for recording lecture. My old portable MD player/recorder can do the 1st generation ATRAC.. not LP4 or current one.. but I found the sound quality is decent. The battery life was pretty good too. Not to mention, my digital camera uses memory stick.

    Anyway, I do own an iPod here and buy music from the iTMS.

  1. typoon

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    05/05, 03:15pm | report spam | Reply |

    ONly one word for this

    There is only one word for this great news from Apple about iTMS.

    NICE!!!

  1. Deal

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    05/05, 04:01pm | report spam | Reply |

    One leg

    Apple needs to grow more legs like this.

  1. trevc

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    05/05, 04:14pm | report spam | Reply |

    Think...

    ...if they had Canada signed up, we'd contribute at least another 1000 or so to that total!

    Although when they go global, I'd expect they'd have to do a break-out by country.

  1. LordJohnWhorfin

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    05/05, 08:27pm | report spam | Reply |

    Whoa.

    Way to go Steve-O.

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