Apple Sells Two Million Songs in 16 Days

Posted by pudge on Wednesday May 14, 2003 @07:15AM from the i-hear-it-so-clear dept.

burgburgburg writes "According to Apple's latest press release, iTunes Music Store has sold over two million songs in the 16 days that it has been open. Quick calculations show this is around 1.44 songs per second. And as was the case last week, over half of the songs purchased so far were purchased as albums. Over 4,300 songs were added to the system yesterday, including older catalog stuff (Doors, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus), new albums (Cold, Lizz Wright, and Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs), prerelease tracks (Michelle Branch, Da Brat, Jesse Harris and Kenna) and more."

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I hope they can keep this rate up by icemax · 2003-05-14 07:44 · Score: 0, Redundant

...for another year!!

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seconds by slothman32 · 2003-05-14 08:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

1.44 songs per second. Is that like 2 songs per second squared?

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Re:Their days are doomed... by angle_slam · 2003-05-14 08:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

$45 Million. At $17 per CD, that is the equivalent of 2.6 million CDs, a figure that Eminem and N'Sync could easily break in a month.