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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. Alla MP3 by poptones · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Given the remarkably thorough slashdotting suffered by allofmp3.com some weeks back after its mention both here and in that australian paper I have to think they must have shifted some healthy level of product this year.

    But then again, I guess they don't count since they're not based in the US, feeding the RIAA corporate welfare lobbying machine. Or maybe they don't count here because they're not technically in euroupe, but rather in Russia which is, as we all know, actually part of Asia. Even 'tho theyre supposed to be part of the EU... or something.

    Meh. More hype for the system. You can wrap it in as many colors as you like, Steven, I'm not helping you feed this monster any more.

    1. Re:Alla MP3 by MvD_Moscow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Russia will never be part of the EU! Never! The cultural difference and the difference in geography is just too big.

  2. as someone who doesn't smoke that Apple crack... by Captain+Rotundo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    At first I assumed iTMS was a rail company laying a lot of new track... :)