Apple today announced that music fans in the UK, France and Germany have purchased and downloaded more than 800,000 songs from the iTunes Music Store since its launch one week ago, with more than 450,000 sold in the UK alone. With Apple
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This sounds great. Have read some negative comments concerning the European stores in reagard to spelling, downloading problems and content (http://www.macintouch.com/itunes_store02.html). Evidently, those problems are not enough to keep people from buying over 100,000 songs a day. Go Apple and congratulations…….
hooty
Way to go Apple. Now if we can just get ITMS up in the rest of the world. I still have some APPL stock but sold a bunch at 28 🙁 and am now kicking myself for not buying more. It is hard though because I am emotionally attached to the stock
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BLOODY HELL!!!
A great start considering all the teething problems, etc. However, don’t expect the kind of numbers that the store gets in the U.S….. at least yet.
er… little bit low don’t u think? compared 3.3 million sold in the USA alone when itunes 4.5 came out…
re: Mac_user
ABIT LOW!!
DO YOU REALISE THAT THE UK IS ABOUT 1/100th the size of USA??
You could fit france, germany and the UK over 20 times in the USA!!
I think its amazing considering!
Also – there is only a population of 250 million people in the uk.
How many billions are there in the USA??
For accuracy’s sake:
UK population = 59.2 million in 2002.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=6
US population = 293.5 million as of this post (estimate).
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
The official population count of the entire United States as of the census of 2000 was 281,421,906. There aren’t “billions” living in the U.S. lol
The UK population is 1/5th the size of the U.S., not 1/100th…
Abandon all hope ye who thinketh to beat iTMS lest thy fukceth thy future.
There is only ONE WAY. The Carly Fiorina way: partnership.
Any other way is a pursuit of fools’ gold — sink only money you are prepared to lose; preferably that of other fools.
Perhaps you ought to check your facts. There are not ‘billions’ in the USA. As of now it is estimated that there are 293 million in the United States.
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
Also as of 2002, there were 59.2 million in the UK.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=7588
For reference there are just under 6.4 billion in the world.
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
As for sizes, the UK is 2.5% of the size of the USA, and you could only put 8.4 of the combined land of Germany, France and the UK into the USA.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Comparing the ratio of iTunes sales in the territory is left as an exercise for the reader.
And don’t forget that when iTMS launched in the USA it sold only a million in its first week, so 800,000 is really positive, especially when you consider that brand awareness is nowhere near as high in Europe as in USA (eg no retail stores yet, although London coming).
Now that the iTunes Music Store has dominated the legal music download market in Europe the competition can go back to criticising Apple for not supporting the WMA format in its iPod.
I hope an Australian iTunes Music Store starts operating here soon.
ITMS sucks in the UK – slow and hard get you files to DL. I hav been trying for days.
I’d like to add that I have bought a double-album from Faithless via iTMS UK and found it as easy as stated. Quality is near-perfect (but it can easily pass as CD-quality). I’m going to enjoy this shopping experience once more indie labels/artists are added (Quantic!!).
Well stroke me longhorns if it ain’t Stevie setting the RFD wave generator from”warm up” to “idle.”
oops … meant to say “RDF.”
make that 295 million in the US. my sister just had twins last night.
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From: john Jun 23, 04 | 8:50 am
ITMS sucks in the UK – slow and hard get you files to DL. I hav been trying for days.
Maybe you have a bad isp. Takes two to make a connection.
The iTMS in the UK is starting to really flesh out now. When it opened there were a lot of artists listed, but when you drilled down no songs were available. Apple are working really hard to up the content numbers. Shame the indies didn’t play ball though.
450,000. That’s only 1.5 songs per iPod. There’s a lot of potential customers there for the milking.
lol, fact check,
so she had 1 million sets of twins. interesting.
800K in a week is pretty good but how did the ‘most recognized name’ in digital music (aka Napster) do? I think as Apple’s sales & stock prices you’ll see Roxio’s sales & stock prices fall in proportion.
Congrats uncle fact.
Great numbers. Hope they will only go up. When iTunes Europe launched, MyCokeMusic.com reacted that they were still the largest online music store selling 500.000 songs in the past 2 months. What? Past two months? Give me a break, that’s about 60.000 songs per week! Can’t touch those Apple numbers. Why can Apple do things while others fail horribly? Why? They just don’t have vision, they just don’t see what makes eveything tick. I honestly believe that Sony’s store will also fail.
Hopefully, in the future, when everybody buys songs online (song quality going up and prices going down, of course) the labels will remove DRM. Now that’s a day I’m looking forward to.