“Apple Computers’ iTunes Music Stores in the United Kingdom, France and Germany have lost little sales momentum in their second week of operations. The services have registered more than 1.5 million combined download sales since launching June 15, the computer giant claims. Apple has not released details on the best-selling titles in the markets,” Lars Brandle reports for Billboard Bulletin.
“The European download services made a big splash in their debut week, shifting 800,000 songs in total. Comparatively, it took Apple just seven days to sell 1 million songs in the United States when it introduced the iTunes Music Store for Macintosh computers there in April 2003,” Brandle reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hey, how’s Scotty Blum doing with his BuyMusic.com “goal of a million downloads a day?” If this news doesn’t cause Mr. Blum to “Get Loaded,” nothing will.
And no, we never forget.
it needs more songs
1st post
and wheres the free song for this week
..and why are all of Europes Apple Stores down? They have been down for more than two hours. iPod mini for the rest of us?
Ask Apple where the new song is. While MDN may be good, they’re not THAT good.
And I thought it was only greedly little me that was missing the free song. I set up an iCal reminder thanks to a suggestion in this forum. When I looked for it today…nada!
the day is not over guys, the free song usually shows up after the “New Music Tuesdays” email is sent out.
ye apple does need more songs and another good point WHERE IS THE IPOD MINI?????? WE WHANT IT AND WE WHANT IT NOW!!!!!!!!!! the only reason why i havent bought an iPod yet is because i am waiting for a mini and then compare them!!
The new songs for the iTMS-UK are now up.
I wouldn’t complain about teh lack of a list until the day is COMPLETELY over.
Blame the labels and artists if there are no free songs on the European sites. They have to agree to such a deal. By the way, did you know that Apple is doing business out of Luxemburg, which means lower taxes on the downloads people pay in the UK, Germany and France.
The computer giant? Apple?
Nice plug anyway.
you can’t resist
Jimbo von Winskinheimer,- i dont know if know but u may know that there is 2 free songs a week
Ed,- there still not up
About BuyMusic.com —
OMG – that is thee worst possible music experience that I can think of – for online. Honeslty. I went there (in Safari) I think I had to turn something off in my perefnces to get there from a Mac. Anyways, once I was there, there were really no selections showing, so I hit MORE, and the screen had to reload and all this time was wasted. then I did a search for Metallica – and to my surprize, they were listed, but only the whole album, that’s why they are not on itunes – can’t just buy the singles. Anyways, I could get a sample listen, so when I clicked on that I was now downloading a WMP file. Once that was Dled – I had to open that up from my desktop which open up WMP, and then I could listen to the song – 30 secs of it. If I wanted more samples, or to DL the song, go back into your browser and do the same thing. I, of course, never bought anything, but I can only imagine what that experience would be like…
iTunes Rocks.
…computer giant!!!
RC, wooooooooooooot! That’s right biaaaaaatch!!
It needs more songs? No, it needs more COWBELL!
needs to be faster to
“When you get to the site, it is going to be painfully obvious that we have a partnership with Microsoft in regards to the way we built the site and run the site,” Blum said.
Umm, yeah. It is painfully obvious.
I would imagine that by now, it is painfully obvious to Scott that he’s got one hell of a White Elephant. Hasta la vista, baby.