Archive for July, 2007

iTunes surpasses 3 billion songs sold - Wow!

The iTunes Store said Tuesday it had passed a milestone, selling more than 3 billion songs since launching four years ago.
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In April, the Cupertino-based company said it had sold more than 100 million iPods. It reached that milestone in the five and a half years since the first iPod was sold. –Yahoo News (AP)

Selling 3 billion songs in four years is impressive but if you put that number into perspective with 100 million iPods sold that only works out to be 30 purchased songs per iPod ever sold. That is a LOT of ‘ripped’ music on to the world’s iPods!