“Napster [2.0], the digital song store and subscription service launched by Roxio in late October, said Monday that it passed the 5 million mark in online song sales. Although that keeps it ahead of other only-on-PC services’ announced sales figures, it remains far behind Apple Computer’s iTunes, which serves both PCs and Macintosh computers,” John Borland reports for CNET News.com.
Apple Computer, in December, announced their iTunes Music Store had sold in excess of 25 million songs. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stated that Apple is shooting for the 100 million songs sold mark during the first year of iTunes’ operation – or by April 28, 2004.