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Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days

Posted by simoniker on from the ker-ching dept.

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."

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  1. Kazaa and other file sharing services by seriv · · Score: 1, Troll

    anyone got the stats on how other file sharing services stack up to iTunes? I bet iTunes is no where close.
    -Seriv

  2. Re:Lot's of sales... No profit... by alienw · · Score: 1, Troll

    So the record companies have no physical product to produce, they don't have to pay for the software, or the bandwidth, and they make 80% of the money for doing essentially nothing.

    Doing nothing? Really? Looks like you've been smoking some good stuff lately. Music companies actually produce the music you buy off of iTMS. Apple is the company that essentially does nothing. How expensive is it to run a couple of servers and develop bloatware? It isn't, my crack-smoking friend. Now, finding good artists, recording them, and selling their music is the difficult part, and that's where the recording industry comes in.