iTunes Music Store sells 275,000 Tracks in 18 Hours

physicsnerd writes "According to this article on Billboard.com, Apple's iTunes Music store sold 275,000 tracks in its first 18 hours of operation. The Register.com estimates that this netted Apple just under $100,000! Not too bad for a 99 cents store." Impressive considering the connection problems people were having. Remains to be seen what usage will be after the hype settles down.

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Did anyone else notice...

[hemp]

That Great White is playing again?

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_displa y. jsp?vnu_content_id=1877943

I bet the tickets sell like wildfire!

Yeah Right

[AnalogDiehard]

Whenever a work of L. Ron Hubbard was published, the Co$ (Cult of $cientology) would order its members to go out and buy ten copies of the book to drive it up the best seller list.

When the movie Battlefield Earth came out the Co$ ordered its members to rush to the theaters on opening weekend and view the movie multiple times.

Co$ has a huge influence in Hollywood and in the music industry. So pardon me for being skeptical but the red flag that goes up in my brain is did the music industry artificially inflate these numbers by directing their employees and affiliates to rush out and buy 50 songs from this service...