At his appearance at the Code Conference, Apple SVP Eddy Cue “noted that Apple just crossed 35 billion songs sold this past week,” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac. “That’s up from the 25 billion songs purchased and downloaded that Apple announced in February of last year. Cue said sold, but we’re assuming that 35 billion number includes both purchases and downloads like Apple’s stat did in its press release last year.”
Kahn reports, “Cue also noted that iTunes has around 800 million customers total and around 40 million iTunes Radio listeners in the U.S. and Australia with a lot of growth coming internationally.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: At the end of April 2014, Pandora Internet Radio’s, which operates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, had 76 million active listeners.
iTunes Radio debuted in the United States of America on September 18, 2013 and in Australia on February 11, 2014.
Not bad, iTunes Radio, not bad at all!
The Apple iTunes Store Milestones:
• May 28, 2014: 35 billion songs.
• February 6, 2013: 25 billion songs.
• February 24, 2010: 10 billion songs.
• June 19, 2008: 5 billion songs.
• February 26, 2008: 4 billion songs.
• July 31, 2007: 3 billion songs.
• April 09, 2007: 2.5 billion songs.
• January 09, 2007: 2 billion songs.
• February 23, 2006: 1 billion songs.
• February 7, 2006: 950 million songs.
• January 9, 2006: 850 million songs.
• October 25, 2005: Available in Australia.
• August 4, 2005: Available in Japan.
• July 17, 2005: 500 million songs.
• May 10, 2005: 400 million songs. Available in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.
• January 24, 2005: 250 million songs.
• December 16, 2004: 200 million songs.
• December 2, 2004: Available in Canada.
• October 26, 2004: Available in the European Union.
• October 14, 2004: 150 million songs.
• July 12, 2004: 100 million songs.
• June 15, 2004: Available in UK, France, and Germany.
• April 28, 2004: 70 million songs.
• March 15, 2004: 50 million songs.
• December 15, 2003: 25 million songs.
• October 16, 2003: Available for Windows. 13 million songs.
• September 8, 2003: 10 million songs.
• June 23, 2003: 5 million songs.
• May 14, 2003: 2 million songs.
• May 5, 2003: One million songs.
• April 28, 2003: Launched in United States.
Related articles:
Apple preps UK iTunes Radio launch – April 15, 2014
NPR brings live streaming news to Apple’s iTunes Radio, more channels on the way – March 24, 2014
Apple’s iTunes Radio already 3rd most popular music streaming service in USA – March 11, 2014
Parts of Apple’s iTunes Radio service flicker on in Australia, UK, and Canada – January 25, 2014
Pandora loses nearly 2 million active listeners following Apple’s iTunes Radio debut – November 5, 2013
Apple’s Eddy Cue ‘very pleased’ with iTunes Radio, looks to go international ASAP; more than 100 countries targeted – October 4, 2013
Pandora founder: Impact of Apple’s iTunes Radio ‘will be modest on Pandora’ – September 24, 2013
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Apple’s iTunes Store passes 25 billion songs sold milestone – February 6, 2013
Apple’s iTunes Store passes 10 billion songs downloads milestone – February 24, 2010
Steve Jobs phones contest-unaware iTunes Store 10 billionth song winner – February 26, 2010
iTunes Store tops 5 billion songs sold; Apple renting and selling over 50,000 movies per day – June 19, 2008
Apple’s iTunes Store passes three billion songs sold milestone – July 31, 2007
a href=”http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/13233/”>Apple hits major milestones: 100 Million iPods sold, 2.5 billion iTunes Store songs sold – April 09, 2007
Apple’s iTunes Store passes two billion songs milestone; 50m TV shows & over 1.3m movies sold – January 09, 2007
Apple’s iTunes Music Store hits one billion songs sold milestone – February 23, 2006
Apple passes 600 million iTunes Music Store songs sold milestone – October 25, 2005
Apple’s iTunes Music Store downloads pass 300 million songs milestone (with chart) – March 2, 2005
Apple’s iTunes Music Store downloads pass 200 million songs milestone – December 16, 2004
Apple’s iTunes Music Store passes 150 million songs milestone – October 14, 2004
Apple launches iTunes Affiliate Program; 125 million iTunes purchased to date – September 01, 2004
Apple’s iTunes Music Store sells 100 millionth song – July 12, 2004
Over 85 million songs downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Music Store – June 08, 2004
Apple launches 3G iTunes Music Store, sold over 70 million songs in first year – April 28, 2004
Apple’s iTunes Music Store milestone: over 50 million songs sold – March 15, 2004
Apple’s iTunes Music Store sells ten millionth song; averaging over 500,000 songs per week – September 08, 2003
iTunes Music Store hits five million songs sold; Apple to ship one millionth iPod this week – June 23, 2003
Apple iTunes Music Store sold 3 million songs in first month – May 29, 2003
iTunes Music Store sells over two million songs in first 16 days; over 4,300 songs added yesterday – May 14, 2003
iTunes Music Store sells over one million songs in first week; over 3,200 new tracks coming May 6th – May 05, 2003
Apple’s iTunes Music Store sells estimated 275,000 tracks in first 18 hours – May 01, 2003
And they also have 250,000 Beats Music customers… Woo hoo.
This doesn’t quite jibe with all the iTunes-related doom & gloom talk about the iTunes Store.
If you look at the progression of songs’ download/sales, it does not really slow down.
That’s my point (though I actually didn’t look. Thank you;). If you listened to all the analysts, you’d think that iTunes was on the ropes, when it’s apparent that it’s doing quite well. Could it be doing better? Sure, but I don’t think that Apple is unduly worried about it (because as far as I can see, there’s nothing to be worried about).
But wait download sales are declining and iTunes Radio is a failure.. Right????
Chiming in, I read from all over the web that ITunes is in big trouble? Could it be another case of more BS from haters?
This requires a graph:
Pasting a graph fails. However if you look at the trend, the rate of downloads is increasing.
It is. What is declining is the average amount spent per iOS user. And for the life of me can’t understand why these stupid analysts and journalists don’t mention that fact. iTunes Music sales are not down 24% year over year like they keep telling us. It’s the per user spending that’s 24% down year over year… Last year there was about 650 million iTunes accounts, this year, 800 million.
Companies CEOs would sell their mothers to have apples “declining” sales and a “failure” such as iTunes Radio with 40 million users in under a year