February 23, 2006
Over a billion served
Posted Feb. 23, ’06, 6:27 PM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Music
We all knew that it was only a matter of time, but the iTunes Music Store has reached 1 billion songs sold. That’s quite an accomplishment considering how popular copyright infringing peer-to-peer networks were at the time of launch. Just for some perspective, here’s the number written out in decimal.
1,000,000,000
That’s big. Congratulations to Apple and congratulations to Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. I do have to say though, the fact that the 1 billionth song was by Coldplay is kind of depressing.
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