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Apple Tops Half a Billion Sold Songs on iTMS (UPDATE)
Sunday, July 17th, 2005 at 3:00 PM - by Brad Gibson
Apple Computer's countdown to its 500 million iTunes Music Store download ended Sunday with a grand prize package being awarded to Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana.
Ms. Greer downloaded the 500 millionth song -- Mississippi Girl by Faith Hill -- at 2:44 P.M. ET Sunday and will receive 10 iPods to share with family and friends, an iTunes gift card for 10,000 songs, an all-expenses paid trip for four to see Coldplay on tour and backstage passes to visit the band.
Apple also gave away an iPod mini and an iTunes gift card for 50 songs to the iTunes customer who purchased the winning song at each 100,000 interval.
The promotion began back on July 5, as first reported by The Mac Observer.
The iTMS features more than 1.5 million songs from the major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels, 10,000 audiobooks, gift certificates and exclusive music.
iTunes Music Store Key Dates | |
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April 28, 2003 | Apple Launches iTunes Music Store |
May 5, 2003 | One million songs sold on iTMS |
May 14, 2003 | Two million songs sold on iTMS |
June 23, 2003 | Five million songs sold on iTMS |
September 8, 2003 | Ten million songs sold on iTMS |
October 16, 2003 | Apple & Pepsi launch giveaway of 100 million free songs |
October 20, 2003 | One million copies of iTunes for Windows downloaded in less than four days |
November 6, 2003 | 1.5 million songs sold on iTMS in one week |
December 15, 2003 | 25 million songs sold on iTMS |
March 15, 2004 | 50 million songs sold on iTMS |
April 28, 2004 | Over 70 million songs sold on iTMS |
May 5, 2004 | 3.3 million songs sold on iTMS in one week |
June 15, 2004 | Apple launches iTMS in UK, France Germany |
June 23, 2004 | iTMS in Europe sells 800,000 songs in first week |
July 12, 2004 | 100 million songs sold on iTMS |
August 10, 2004 | iTMS catalog tops one million songs |
October 14, 2004 | 150 million songs sold on iTMS |
October 26, 2004 | Apple launches iTMS in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain |
December 2, 2004 | Apple launches iTMS in Canada |
December 16, 2004 | 200 million songs sold on iTMS |
January 6, 2005 | Apple launches iTMS in Ireland |
January 24, 2005 | 250 million songs sold on iTMS | March 2, 2005 | 300 million songs sold on iTMS |
April 13, 2005 | 350 million songs sold on iTMS |
May 10, 2005 | Apple launches iTMS in Denmark, Norway, Sweden & Switzerland |
May 10, 2005 | 400 million songs sold on iTMS |
July 17, 2005 | 500 million songs sold on iTMS |
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