iTunes Music Store Estimator for Mac OS X 10.2 and higher is a little application that shows the estimated current total of tracks sold on the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) as well as an estimate of the time of the next milestone sale (every 100,000th track). This is important because Apple is giving away iPods and iTMS gift cards to the purchasers of the milestone tracks until total sales reach 500,000,000.
The application will automatically update its estimate every 5 minutes and, when there are 10 seconds or less until the next estimated milestone sale, the application will beep each second. This application was inspired by the counter on the iTunes web page and uses the same source data as the Apple counter.
The estimate can also be updated manually at any time by hitting Command-U.
More info and download link here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Nine Figures 2 tracks Apple’s iTunes Music Store song sales in Mac OS X menu bar – July 06, 2005
Apple launches iTunes Music Store Countdown to half a billion songs; win 10 iPods, 10,000 songs – July 05, 2005
Of all the programs I don’t need, this pretty much heads the list.
Unlike Al above, I do need free iPods and iTMS tracks, so this app will be running on my Mac until 500,000 is hit.
the counter is a bunch of garbage. Set your Mac’s date to July 17th, and look at the counter…
Fred, stop dicking around with Command-U, work harder, earn more and buy anything you desire.
Open one window/tab to Apples homepage, then another window/tab to the iTunes pages. Switching back and forth between the two you’ll notice that the counters don’t match, often they are off by hundreds. I imagine Apples own counters are best estimates, which makes tapping into them worthless.
wouldn’t we all love free ipods?? imagine winning TEN?? ok, i have an ipod…do i need another one? of course not…but i would love to have one…or ten. hey i could give some to my friends….you could always find uses for them. nothing wrong with trying to win something.
Anyone know why Madonna is not available in the iTunes store? Even the recent live 8 tracks are not available from her. What’s the scoop?
Ask her record label. Perhaps they feel they’re making so much money from physical sales of her back catalogue that they don’t need these ‘internets’ to push her sales figures.
Personally, I’m waiting for the record labels to wise up and digitize back catalogues that (for some reason or another) never made it to CD. Offering that content via the iTMS or Napster or whatever would cost a fraction of the already ridiculously low overhead costs the record companies claim would make releasing that stuff physically be ‘cost prohibitive’. There are dozens of significant artists that nobody has heard of since vinyl disappeared, which (for me, at least) is a greater shame than not being able to get that Madonna song from the “Dick Tracy” soundtrack on the iTMS…
It’s amazing how fast 100,000 tracks are sold. They were selling 100K tracks like every 37 minutes at its peak, then it slowed to every 51 minutes.
Not so interested in the Madonna track from the Dick Tracy soundtrack, but I would like the tracks she performed at Live 8 a couple of days ago.