Apple iTunes tops 5 billion sold songs
Apple on Thursday said music sales on its iTunes store have topped 5 billion songs, and visitors are renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies each day. Apple, which has surpassed Wal-Mart as the leading music retailer in the United States, put out a brief press release on the latest numbers, offering no further details. The company has a catalog of more than 8 million songs, 20,000 TV shows, and 2,000 films, including 350 in high-definition format. In announcing on April 3 that it had surpassed Wal-Mart, Apple said that it had sold more than 4 billion songs through iTunes. Given that announcement was 77 days ago, that would mean the company has sold nearly 13 million songs a day since then. Apple was not immediately available for comment.
Apple has gotten in trouble before for its iTunes math. In late April, the company said it offered 10 million songs on its 5-year-old store, but later ratcheted the number down to 6 million songs. In August 2007, the company said it had 5 million songs. Apple’s movie collection includes titles from 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Sony Pictures Television International, and Lionsgate. ITunes will rent and sell movies on the same day as their DVD release. Customers using Mac or Windows operating systems must have iTunes 7.6.2 or higher to buy or rent the movies.
Source: InfoWeek
Comments(22)
Thats ok… I have 5 billion illegal songs.
Difference is, Apple’s 5 billion songs (supposedly) means something, your collection means jack sh!t. Thanks for commenting though, everyone wanted to know how many songs you have…
useless info
No-one cares.
gas is too expensive to pay for music. next!
Glad I had no part in the 5 billion. NEXT….
LOL PC fanboys are stropping and have no proper put downs as the figures speak for themselves! NEXT!!…..
iTunes store and online movie rentals are very good. Torrents, however, provide much better price / performance ratio.
people are still paying for music on itunes?
what a waste of money
5 billion songs at 99cents, lot of money!!!
i think it is too expensive
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Stupid off topic article. Itunes can blow a goat, as can the idiot who posted this crap.
kneel towards cupertino all ye unwashed masses!
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wtf? ppl pay 4 music and movies? now thats just stoopid…
pir8
June 20th, 2008 | 19:29
Without anybody paying for them, there wouldn’t even be any music or films available for you to download illegally.
I prefer paying for tangible goods than blowing money away on Mb of information I can’t even put on a shelf or show my kids in 20 years time like my parents do with their LP’s.
Paying for Mb??? I’d like to see the production costs involved in that to justify paying.
So hey Record Companies: stop being so greedy and make CD’s around 10 euros, include cool extras like interviews, autographed goods, teddy bears, I don’t know… anything NOT transferrable to a computer, and you will be back in the $ zone. Sure… sell music online to those saps who buy…
My money only goes to tangible goods which cost money to produce.
This is bulls*it.
Bad math once again…
iTunes is the most bloated piece of software I’ve ever used on Windows. The latest version (7.6) expands to 200Mb after it’s installed. It sucks the crap out of my CPU and the sync to my iphone takes some 3 minutes (for a USB-2 device this is pathetic). They need to throw the whole thing away and start again, at this rate it will only get worse….
@19
I’ve been with you for a while.. I haven’t used itunes in two years – foobar2000 – and for the rest of you this bit of information is only good for stockholders. It’s kinda crazy they beat walmart though
@7
Those PC fanboys are the ones buying the stupid downloads, you hardly believe that there,s a few billion Mac users out there
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