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iTMS Europe: 800,000 Tracks In A Week

Posted by timothy on from the but-are-those-metric-tracks dept.

no_demons writes "In a press release, Apple has announced that the "European" iTunes Music Store has sold 0.8 million tracks in a week, with around 450,000 being sold in the UK alone. According to Steve Jobs other services were shifting only 50,000 tracks a week in Europe before the launch."

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  1. Re:Great in comparison to others, but ... by TrueBuckeye · · Score: 5, Informative

    If anyone really cares, this is how it breaks down:

    Population of Germany, France and UK: 203,119,530
    Population of US: 293,027,571

    Which gives us
    3.94 downloads per 1000 people for Europe
    8.53 downloads per 1000 people for the US

    This assumes 800,000 downloads for Gr, Fr, and UK compared to 2.5 mil for the US.

    Populations are the 2004 Estimates from The CIA World Factbook

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