Apple just 2.5m songs (fewer now) short of 10 billion downloads from iTunes

Ten billion songs sold in less than seven years: quite an achievement for something that wasn't in the forefront of record labels' thoughts in April 2003.Apple is (if you trust the counter on the front of its website, which perhaps you shouldn't, as we'll explain) about 2.5m songs short of selling 10 billion songs through its iTunes Music Store, which was launched in April 2003.The person who downloads that 10 billionth song can expect to be feted - as the related page explains, you could win a ...

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