iTMS Europe: 800,000 Tracks In A Week

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."

Comments

who knew...

[enrico_suave]

that the pet shop boys were that popular?!

Or is it legions of morrisey fans?

e.

My email to apple (the iTunes Experience...)

[ToKsUri]

I agree with you about how most "artists" really fear this system because it is really more democratic. I have been long waiting for the service to arrive to europe, and my experience has nt been really what I say a good one.
Here is the feedback I gave back to apple after buying my first legal song:

Hello,
I live in spain and own an iPod. I've been visiting the iTunes
Music Store since the windows version came out. I have never bought a
song over the internet but have been waiting for iTunes to come tu
Europe. Luckily, I am studying now in France and yesterday the store
opened here. Just today I signed up with you, and if I you let me say
it this way, my credit card lost its internet virginity with you. My
student savings are near no nothing, but still valuable enough as to
think twice when using my card over the internet. However, apple
offered my the confidence to do so.
First of all, I found insulting how most of the artists only had
some songs I could buy and not the complete album, which if I should
finally buy in a real store if I really wanted it. Of course, this
real album will include the song I had previously bought via iTunes,
meaning to pay twice for the same thing, which I find ridicolous.
However, I know this is not only apple's fault, but mainly the labels.
Anyway, I comment on it as I guess it is some valuable feedback.
Nevertheless, which really made me very very very sad to the point
of angry was the following. I decided to buy a song (which I actually
own) just to give you a try and get some confidence with the system.
I even was thinking of telling all my friends back in spain about
this. But What happened? Ok, I thought 99 Euro cents was a reasonable
price. so I bought the song. Now I look in my bank account, and
great.. the 99 cents have magically been converted to 1,98 Euros. It
is still not a big difference, but I do feel completely humilliated
and abused. It makes me think HOW EASY and RELIABLE it is to download
an illegal track and how the people that want to contribute with the
music are beein ripped off. It is even very hard for me right now to
buy music in a store with all the Copy Control rubish which makes the
discs no longer be COMPACT DISCS and which I cant listen almost
anywhere! In consequence I no longer buy copy protected cds. My last
hope was iTunes and now I feel completely defrauded.

I dont really want my money back, you can keep it. But I dont think
I will ever buy another song from you.
I love music, I have musician friends. I want to contribute to
their art for the feelings they create on me. But right now I find no
other way of doing it apart of going to their concerts! (which is not
always possible). Im sending you this message because I hope it will
actually mean something to someone out there. You are apple! I wouldnt
even care to send all this so personal email it it were any of the
other companies out there right now. But this is Apple Care, maybe
someone really cares.

Thank you.

Re:iTMS is marketed well

[oscast]

Stop with the fanboyism.

Wuh? How do you get fanboyism out of that... you need to get over yourself.

"If Apple's quite obvious new focus and record-setting stock price don't tell you that a new strategic direction is emerging 1 Infinite Loop, you're seeing only what you want to see, which isn't much."

Sure it is helping their stock but that doesn't mean that Apple is transitioning away from being a computer company in ANY way shape or form. Again, stop with the FUD.