iTunes Music Store: a quarter billion served
Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 250 million songs from the iTunes Music Store.
"When we launched the iTunes Music Store we were hoping to sell a million songs in the first six monthsânow weâre selling over a million songs every day, and weâve sold over a quarter billion songs in total," said Steve Jobs, Appleâs CEO. "iTunes is leading the way into the digital music era and together with iPod is changing the way millions of music lovers find and enjoy their music."
The iTunes Music Store features more than one million songs from the major music companies and 600 independent record labels, over 9,000 audiobooks, gift certificates and exclusive music not found anywhere else online.