Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded
more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store® (www.itunes.com),
the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store. The 25
billionth song, “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch, was
purchased by Phillip Lüpke from Germany. As the downloader of the 25
billionth song, Phillip will receive a €10,000 iTunes® Gift Card.
iTunes Store Sets New Record with 25 Billion Songs Sold (Photo: Business Wire)
“We are grateful to our users whose passion for music over the past 10
years has made iTunes the number one music retailer in the world,” said
Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and
Services. “Averaging over 15,000 songs downloaded per minute, the iTunes
Store connects music fans with their favorite artists, including global
sensations like Adele and Coldplay and new artists like The Lumineers,
on a scale we never imagined possible.”
“In a lot of ways, iTunes has leveled the playing field for musicians.
Whether you’re unsigned, indie, major, whatever—it’s the place most
people go to buy digital music,” said Wesley Schultz, guitarist and lead
vocalist of The Lumineers. “iTunes doesn’t exclude any musicians simply
because they’re not yet established or popular.”
The iTunes Store is the world’s most popular music store with a catalog
of over 26 million songs and over 25 billion songs downloaded, and is
available in 119 countries. The iTunes Store is the best way for
iPhone®, iPad®, iPod®, Mac® and PC users to legally discover, purchase
and download music online. All music on the iTunes Store comes in iTunes
Plus®, Apple’s DRM-free format with high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding
for audio virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings.
iTunes in the Cloud lets you download your previously purchased iTunes
music to your devices at no additional cost, and new music purchases can
be downloaded automatically to your iOS devices.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with
OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital
music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has
reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store,
and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with
iPad.
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