iTunes Store tops three billion songs
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 31, 2007 at 5:11pm
Apple says that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, which boasts 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 (based on data from market research firm the NPD Group’s MusicWatch survey, which captures consumer reported past week unit purchases equivalized so that one CD equals 12 tracks, excluding wireless transactions).
“We’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone,” Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes, said.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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