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iTunes Sells 500 Millionth Song

Posted by Zonk on from the grats! dept.

TJPile writes "Apple's iTunes Music Store can now say half a billion served. One look at Apple's front page says it all. Sunday, at 2:44PM EST, Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana bought Faith Hill's Mississippi Girl to win."

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  1. She should be ashamed of herself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I knew that the 500 millionth iTunes song purchase was coming up soon, I would at least have the decency of buying a good song.

    1. Re:She should be ashamed of herself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      At least it wasn't "Waterloo" by Abba...I'd rather forfeit the prize than have the world know I'm listening to that.

    2. Re:She should be ashamed of herself by tartanblue · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not defending 50 Cent, but you might want to get that whole uncontrollable vomiting thing looked at.

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  2. Hasn't... by dreemernj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hasn't anyone patented 'the display of multiple round numbers in celebration of sales achievement' yet? McDonalds should get on that.

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    1. Re:Hasn't... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Too late now, 10 words: prior art

  3. Sure by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now if only there was a store as popular as Apple's Itunes that didn't sell DRM-encrusted music files.

    I'd like a free pony too, but I'm more likely to get my pony than you are DRM-less RIAA music.

  4. Re:Time line by nuggetman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know Uber users complain about the DRM but I can tell you that most people, just don't care. They have their songs they can burn them to CD put them on their iPods. That's about all most people want to do.

    OMG wtf, I want to be able to reencode my DRM-crapified files into multiplexed OGG Vorbis (and then to FLAC as I please) and put them on my iRiver and Creative Zen players which I bought because the iPod is such a fashion accessory. So no, the iTMS is NOT good enough for me and never WILL be good enough for me.

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  5. I have to wonder... by DanielNS84 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How long ago Kazaa passed this mark and if any information was collected from it. I also wonder if information was published about said person and their music taste on a major news site. ;)

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  6. Re:Fake by mendaliv · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe the 430M figure is what Apple's reporting, and this site accidentially did the math if it were, say MiS (Mega binary Songs; multiplied 430 by 2^20) and just rounded up!

  7. What is this world coming too? by Fahrvergnuugen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just look

    at what the prize winning losers were buying!

    Jessica Simpson? Kelly Clarkson? Brian McKnight?!

    Oh the agony...

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    1. Re:What is this world coming too? by generic-man · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm more amazed by the fact that someone actually bought "My Immortal" by the Kidz Bop Kids as an XXX,X00,000th song (496,700,000 if you want to be precise). Imagine a dark song by Evanescence covered by a shout-singing chorus of 10-year-olds. Now that's 99 cents well spent.

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  8. I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...what the headlines would say if the 500 millionth was "Grab the devil by the horns and f**k him up the ass" by Sum41?

    LOL

    1. Re:I wonder... by BlueDjinn · · Score: 2, Funny

      Even better, what if it had been a song by these guys?

      http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewArtist?artistId=2989441

      (Warning: NSFW, which is kind of the point...)

      Interesting that the iTMS censors the words in the song *title* but not the *artist*, and even includes a matter-of-fact bio background on them:

      http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ com.apple.jingle.app.store.DirectAction/biography? artistId=2989441

      Whoops!!

  9. Re:Now if only.... by Skye16 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh my. This is like Christmas now. Granted, it's like someone taking my Christmas presents - that I bought for myself - and giving them back - but it's better than no presents at all. Thanks!

    Now I have to scurry off and burn these CDs to disk and re-rip them. This is entirely too much effort expended on music I legitimately own (license). Yar.