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Apple Announces 25 Million Song Downloads

Posted by pudge on from the over-n-million-served dept.

Tweder writes "On Apple's iTunes site, Apple has announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 25 Million songs from the iTunes Music Store. It seems the launch of the ITMS on the Windows platform has boosted sales tremendously." I suppose this is where I am expected to say something along the lines of, "I thought the recording industry said that this business model wouldn't work, that people won't pay for what they can download for free?" So, there you go.

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  1. I've downloaded 25 million songs too! by corebreech · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the big deal?

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    Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
  2. Re:Where does your money go? by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not too busy to post on slashdot though, I see ;)

    Guess some things ARE worth spending time on.

  3. the writing is on the wall by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's worse than it looks. In the first two weeks Apple sold two million songs. It's been seven months and they've only sold 25 million? That's a million a week the first two weeks, and then only 23 million in the next 28 weeks. If current trends continue, we're looking at a significant dropoff of song downloads. The writing is on the wall, folks; Apple is dying!