iTunes Store Tops 10 Billion Songs Sold

[johannes]

CUPERTINO, California—February 25, 2010—Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com), the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store.

The 10 billionth song, “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash, was purchased by Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia. As the winner of the iTunes Countdown to 10 Billion Songs, Louie will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. iTunes is the number one music retailer in the world and features the world’s largest music catalog with over 12 million songs.

“We’re grateful to all of our customers for helping us reach this amazing milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “We’re proud that iTunes has become the number one music retailer in the world, and selling 10 billion songs is truly staggering.”

Source: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/02/25itunes.html

For the related CNN article/video: Grandpa Wins iTunes Contest

1 billion songs were downloaded by 2006. Four years later, that number has increased tenfold!

I wonder how soon the App Store will reach the same milestone. It reached its 3 billionth download in just 18 months!

Cheers, Apple! And congratulations to the $10,000 iTunes Gift Card winner!

[greta87]

I read that the winner was called by Steve Jobs himself. except he thought that it was a prank call. so he checked the caller ID, it said: "Apple", that's when he realized that the guy on the other line was really the man himself. lucky guy.

[johannes]

And I must say, the title of the song he bought was pretty appropriate: "Guess Things Happen That Way".

[jnskyliner34]

lucky guy!

if only we had the iTunes store. i'd be spending thousands of pesos a month on there.

[jaytrixz]

In my case, I'll invest on those HD movies they have on the iTunes Store.

[incubryle]

iphone games FTW!!!