Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days

ajkst1 writes "According to an Apple press release, the iTunes Music Store has sold 1 million songs since its release on the Windows platform on October 16. Also of note is the 1 million downloads of the iTunes music program itself. When the iTMS was first released, it took a full week to sell a million songs. The store has now had 14 million songs purchased and downloaded since its original launch in April."

Comments

WOW!!! A Million Songs!

[BlackBolt]

The good publicity Apple's sure to get from this would almost make it worth their while to buy those songs themselves...

...hmm... wait a minute...

No, sorry, my bad. It wasn't Apple. It was me. I admit it. I was the one who bought those songs. I just wanted to see if their servers could withstand a vicious one-man slashdotting...

It can - apparently the iTunes server's not running Windows. But I'll try again tonight, this time with my friend Chris buying the same songs simultaneously. Then I'll get Greg and Dave to help me buy whole albums at a time, and pretty soon, Steve Jobs will crumble in terror and BEG us to stop our vicious assault on their site!

Steve Jobs, I warned you - I've got my VISA, and I'm ready to
take.
you.
down.

You didn't care when I started buying iPod after iPod in an attempt to exhaust your assembly line workers in a one-man iPod Slashdotting. Well this is different. This time, I'm serious and I've upped my VISA limits. Your site is toast. Get ready to rumble!

Signed, your pal
Hackmaster Fred

Re:Lot's of sales... No profit...

[TopShelf]

80 cents to the record companies who have done essentially NOTHING except allow a form of sales that requires them to produce no physical product.


Well, how else will their lawyers get paid? Settlements from 12 year-old girls and college students only go so far...

Re:Lot's of sales... No profit...

[Geek of Tech]

Yeah really! Been out three and half whole days and only a million sells.... Gotta wonder how they can stay afloat.

[/Sarcasm]

Been three days. Mostlikely, the number of ITunes downloads will slow down, but the buys should keep going fairly well.

Yep... I downloaded those ONE MILLION SONGS...!

[jbuilder]

And man my wife is gonna be pissed when she sees the Amex Platinum bill. What could I do? I'm trying to keep my Apple stock share up...! It *seemed* reasonable to do at the time....

Glad I had lot of CDRs lying around....

Re:Wrong

[GreyPoopon]

for christ's sakes, this thing hasn't even been out a week and everyone's bitching about what it doesn't do.

You're new here, aren't you? :-)

Re:Wrong!

[Anonymous Coward]

We need to DEMAND nothing less than total SHN, FLAC, APE, and OGG support. Anything less is denying the most vocal .5% of users the features they can't live without.

Proactive dissing

[Infonaut]

I'm sure it's just annoying the hell out of some folks that Apple is showing so much early success with iTunes for Windows and the new iTMS. So in the spirit of service, I've rounded up some assaults on Apple that should mollify the critics.

1) Apple blew it. They came out with iTunes for Windows too late. Ha ha hah! Buymusic.com is already there first. The vaporous Dell and Microsoft services are much better on paper than than this pathetic Apple offering.

2) AAC? Beh. Give me the open standard. Give me WMP! Support standards, Apple!

3) Black turtlenecks? Who wears black turtlenecks?

4) 99 cents a song? What, do you think I'm RICH?! Give me songs for free. Artists don't get much money when they go through the iTMS anyway, so why should I give the artists anything at all? Answer me that, man.

5) They're just trying to sell iPods. So that means that even if I get the iTunes app for free and use it, Apple is screwing me over. Yeah, they're screwing me over. That's it.