iTunes store: 5 billion songs; 50,000 movies per day (flag)

apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com — Apple issued two nice round numbers on Thursday. First, it announced that the number of songs purchased and downloaded from the iTunes store since it opened on April 28, 2003 has passed the 5 billion mark. This represents a continued acceleration of music sales. It took Apple ( AAPL ) ...

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TechCrunch — ... Will the music subscription business ever grow beyond its current niche? It looks increasingly doubtful. Today, eMusic announced that since it launched its current music subscription service in 2003, customers have downloaded 250 million songs. Apple’s iTunes, by comparison, has sold more than 5 billion songs since it opened the iTunes Store in April, 2003. That makes eMusic one twentieth the size of iTunes. ...

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