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The Apple iTunes Music Store has now sold over 950 million songs in 21 countries. To
celebrate, they are running a promotion during the countdown to the billion songs sold milestone. Every 100,000th song downloaded wins a black 4GB iPod nano and a $100 iTunes Music Card. The grand prize for nabbing the billionth song is a new 20-inch iMac, 10 (count ‘em) 10 60GB iPods (5 white/5 black) and 1 U.S. $10,000 iTunes Music Card. On top of that, Apple will create a full-ride scholarship in your name to a world-renowned music school. Not bad eh?
It’s hard to imagine that less than 5 years ago, the only reliable way to get music electronically was to dowload it using services like Napster, Audio Galaxy and Morpheus. Then you had to clean up the titles of each track, filter out the bogus ones, and get rid of any that cut off early or had skips in them. Now here we are in 2006 with a fully featured and mature digital music and video store that has sold nearly a billion songs. Say what you will about the walled-garden approach of only loading songs onto iPods, I don’t see any other service offering this kind of digital entertainment quality.
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I couldn’t agree with you more on the service that Apple is providing. Granted, I don’t use iTunes, but its starting to gain my attention more and more. Although I do miss the days of Napster, because it was free, I am a huge music lover so I still pay for music……….which is more than I can say for alot of people I know.
Anyone else still download lots of music?
[…] That’s it! The billionth song has been sold on the iTunes Music Store. Just a little over two weeks after our original post, Alex Ostrovsky made the billionth purchase when he downloaded Coldplay’s latest album, X&Y. For those of you that were vying to be the recipient of the grand prize 20″ iMac, 10 iPods, $10,000 iTMS money and the creation of a new scholarship to Julliard in your name, you can take some comfort (or maybe not) that at least the winner was a Michigander. Alex hails from West Bloomfield, Michigan and I’m sure you are all with me when I say, “Congratulations, you son of a bitch.” […]
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