On July 1, 2004, Apple announced the sale of 95 million songs via their iTunes Music Store and began counting up to 100 million songs sold by giving away 50 special 20GB iPods – one to the purchaser of each 100,000th song downloaded between 95 million and 100 million songs.
Today, Apple sold its 100 millionth song at approximately 1:24 am EDT, according to the company’s count of songs sold on the iTunes Music Store on apple.com.
“As we cross this historic milestone, we want to thank our customers, the artists and the music labels who have embraced our dream for iTunes,” said Steve Jobs, Apple
Crossing my fingers!!
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I wonder how the spin artists are going to run with this news. “Apple finally reaches its goal” ??
Alright already – who won???
I hit the “Buy” button on my meager purchase of 12 songs when the counter on Apple.com said 99,992,422 at about 12:22 AM (Central), so maybe I got pretty close! Hopefully close enough?
So, how many of the rest of you were right there with me?
I did the exact same thing
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Twelve days and 6000 000 downloads makes round 500 000 per day that is nice. I wonder how soon it reaches 1000 000 per day.
Well done!
Hopefully it won’t slow down just because the promotion is over…
That is 100 million songs that MusicMatch, Napster and all the other WMA-is-the-better-format music stores did NOT sell. The spin-doctors will report this milestone as being late but considering where the online music industry was two years ago I would say that Apple did very well in a short time.
It wadn’t me for sure. Funny what all those zeroes do to a one…. How far we gotta go for the 100-millionth Mac?
I’ll give two PBs and a 325i to anyone who can put a zero on the right side of my bank balance.
Integers only accepted
phew
“I’ll give two PBs and a 325i to anyone who can put a zero on the right side of my bank balance. Integers only accepted”
I’d need to know what your bank balance is, but sure.
Let’s see, two PowerBook and a 325i come to 1099+1099+28,795 = 30,993. I give you between one and nine dollars, depending on what your bank balance is, in order to get a zero on the right side of your bank balance.
Where do I sign up? :^)
Kevin Britten of Hays Ellis, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermouse remix) by Zero7
Wonder how much his iPod with 100,000,000 etched in the back would be worth in eBay… 1,000 Dellahs?
(I assume you’re getting me the cheapest powerbooks and the cheapest version of the 325i. And you never did mention if they were new… :^)
Dang — I couldn’t figure out how to phrase it. Let’s see, retrieve the two PBs from the trash; get a 325i from the two-dollar shop … it’ll cost me at least three bucks!
live song counter here for anyone who is interested
http://itunescount.tijdweb.nl/
For those that are interested, Apple sold 560,935 tracks between 16:00 BST yesterday and 07:00 BST today which equates to selling 623 songs/minute.
In the hour of the 100 millionth song, Apple sold 78,759 songs at a rate of 1313 songs per minute – which would equate to 1.89 million songs if maintained for an entire 24 hours.
In the 25 minutes between 6:00 BST and 6:25 BST, Apple sold 45,029 songs at 1,801 songs/minute which would equate to 2.593 million songs/day if maintained for 24 hours.
[I]So, if nothing else, we know that the volume on iTMS can increase by an order of magnitude and it still keeps running.[/I]
Interesting to note that since the 100M mark was reached, Apple have still managed to sell over 70,000 songs which still equates to a daily rate that would exceed the sales of the myCoke music store for the first quarter of this year.
How depressing that must be if you’re a member of Loudcloud/OD2, or Napster, or Wal-Mart, or Rhapsody or the sorry failure that was Buymusic.
Congrats!
Check out the counter from iPodLounge!
http://ym.muda.org/itunes/hist.php
Congrats Kevin!
Now while we’re at it, check out my own counter
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The Almost Live Psychedelic iTMS counter is at:
http://pages.infinit.net/voxel/itmspsychedeliccount.htm
“Interesting to note that since the 100M mark was reached, Apple have still managed to sell over 70,000 songs which still equates to a daily rate that would exceed the sales of the myCoke music store for the first quarter of this year.”
WOW!! To all those execs in denial that said European online music market was pathetic… “That’s why no one cares about Cokemusic..”
I’m just relieved that the 100,000,000th song wasn’t something pathetically awful; how’d you like to go down in history as the person who made history by purchasing “We Built This City on Rock n’ Roll” by Starship?!
BTW, iTMS has sold about 95 thousand tracks in the last seven hours…
Lucky bastard.
But congrats to the winner. And definitely congrats to Apple.
If Apple hadn’t gotten into the game, this milestone would have been hit in the year 2012.
Let’s celebrate by freeing ourselves from Apple’s vendor lock-in with FairKeys and hymn.
If you think the iTMS Terms of Service has any legal force, think again.
Strangely, the Windows Chief Apologist makes no reference to the achievement of the 100 million track milestone.
Is he still predicting that the ‘superior’ WMA-based stores will succeed against Apple’s history-making behemoth? Why not drop him a line and ask the question.