Apple’s iTunes Store passes three billion songs sold milestone

Apple today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store. iTunes is the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store featuring a catalog of over five million songs, 550 television shows and 500 movies. iTunes recently surpassed Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US (source: NPD Group).

“We’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes, in the press release.

With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as Cover Flow, integrated podcasting support, iMix playlist sharing, seamless integration with iPod and iPhone, and theability to turn previously purchased songs into completed albums at reduced prices, the iTunes Store is the best way for PC and Mac users to legally discover, purchase and download music and video online.

Visit Apple’s iTunes Store here.

MacDailyNews Note: Exponential!

The Apple iTunes Store Milestones:
• July 31, 2007: 3 billion songs sold
• April 9, 2007: 2.5 billion songs sold
• January 9, 2007: 2 billion songs sold
• December 6, 2006: Available in New Zealand
• February 23, 2006: 1 billion songs sold
• October 25, 2005: Available in Australia
• August 4, 2005: Available in Japan
• July 17, 2005: 500 million songs sold
• May 10, 2005: 400 million songs sold; available in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
• January 24, 2005: 250 million songs sold
• December 16, 2004: 200 million songs sold
• December 2, 2004: Available in Canada
• October 26, 2004: Available in the Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain
• October 14, 2004: 150 million songs sold
• July 12, 2004: 100 million songs sold
• June 15, 2004: Available in UK, France, and Germany
• April 28, 2004: 70 million songs sold
• March 15, 2004: 50 million songs sold
• December 15, 2003: 25 million songs sold
• October 16, 2003: Available for Windows; 13 million songs sold
• September 8, 2003: 10 million songs sold
• June 23, 2003: 5 million songs sold
• May 14, 2003: 2 million songs sold
• May 5, 2003: One million songs sold
• April 28, 2003: iTunes Store launched in United States