Over five billion songs sold at iTunes Store
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jun 19, 2008 at 9:12am
Apple says that over five billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store. Based on data from the NPD Group’s MusicWatch survey, iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs.
Also, iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing over 50,000 movies every day, making iTunes the world’s most popular online movie store, according to Apple. iTunes features movies from all of the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema. Users can rent movies and watch them on their Macs or PCs, all current generation iPods (iPod classics, iPod touches and third generation iPod nanos) on a widescreen TV with Apple TV. iTunes Store customers can also purchase new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios on the same day as their DVD release.
The iTunes Store boasts a catalog of over eight million songs, over 20,000 TV episodes and over 2,000 films including over 350 in high definition video. The store became the largest music retailer in the US based on the amount of music sold during January and February 2008.
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Dennis Sellers Says:
Mark, it is indeed billion. I made a typo in the body copy, but I’ve fixed it. Thanks for pointing out my snafu.—Dennis
Posted on June 19, 2008
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Dennis Sellers
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.
Mark Hartman Says:
Is that MILLION or BILLION? The title says one thing, the body says another.
Posted on June 19, 2008