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May 5, 2008

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A million here, a million there, pretty soon you’re talking real song figures

Posted May. 5, ’08, 10:44 AM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | iTunes » iTunes Store

iTunes turns fiveWhen the iTunes Store had turned five a week ago, Apple threw a party of sorts, touting the store’s successes and achievements and posting five pages worth of bestsellers and editor’s picks from the past five years. Among all that celebration, they’d also mentioned that they now had over ten million songs in their catalogue.

When I read that, I was quite surprised by the number. Hadn’t Apple more recently insisted on a number closer to six million? How had the catalogue suddenly inflated enough to include four million more songs, even though there had been no news of any development on that front in the past few months?

It turns out that it hadn’t. I have no idea how it came to be, but that number was an error. The correct number is six million and the description on the store was later corrected. MacNN has pictures of the figures as they’d appeared on the store, before and after the correction.

If any of you were hoping that Apple had stealthily added DRM-free versions of half the catalogue, we’re sorry to disappoint you, but that just isn’t the case. The rest of the stats are still true, however, so the store does have over fifty million customers and has sold in excess of four billions songs; it just doesn’t have ten million of them to sell.

[Via TUAW]


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