As of the 17th of July, number 500 million was downloaded from iTunes.
Amy purchased the 500 millionth song – Mississippi Girl by Faith Hill – and was awarded the grand prize:
500 millionth prize
* 10 iPods choose from any model iPod, iPod mini, iPod U2 or iPod shuffle
* Gold 10,000-song Gift Card for the iTunes Music Store and 10 additional 50-song gift cards to go with those iPods
* Four Coldplay Tickets and a trip for you and three guests to see Coldplay on its current tour, with front-row seats (subject to availability)
* Coldplay Back-stage Passes for a meet ‘n greet with the band (guaranteed availability)
Almost makes me wish I had an iPod and downloaded songs from iTunes. The real news is that they have proved time and time again that the pay-per-download mp3 world actually works, and can probably be decently profitable.
Just google “iTunes sucks” and go to the first site listed….Bittorent all the way man!
Cheers.
Even though this number of songs is “big”, it’s nowhere near the number of iPods that Apple has sold.
It’s the same as Sony advertising that they’ve sold 100k UMD films (or some similar number) when in reality it isn’t a great achievement, just free advertisement.