February 25th, 2006 by Chi An
Late update here. Apple’s iTunes Music Store sold the billionth song!
The billionth song, ”Speed of Sound,” was purchased as part of Coldplay’s “X&Y” album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. As the grand prize winner, he will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation iPods, and a $10,000 Music Card good for any item on the iTunes Music Store. In addition, to commemorate this milestone, Apple will establish a scholarship to the world-renowned Juilliard School in his name.
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August 9th, 2005 by Chi An
Wow, iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in Japan has just sold 1 million songs in just 4 days! This is the greatest startup in any of the 20 countries that iTunes Music Store made. The Japanese iTMS was just launched last thursday, 4th August 2005.
“We’ve had the No. 1 digital music player in Japan. And now we can say we have the No. 1 online music store in Japan,” said Eddy Cue, Apple Computer Inc. vice president of applications.
With just 4 days, iTMS is outperformed than Sony Corp’s online music store. It is around 450,000 songs downloaded
per month through the Sony Corp’s online music store.
It’s time for Sony to make some changes! Will Sony join the iTMS?
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