Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days

ajkst1 writes "According to an Apple press release, the iTunes Music Store has sold 1 million songs since its release on the Windows platform on October 16. Also of note is the 1 million downloads of the iTunes music program itself. When the iTMS was first released, it took a full week to sell a million songs. The store has now had 14 million songs purchased and downloaded since its original launch in April."

Run DMC

[glenrm]

No Run DMC a major hole in the service.

Re:anal retentive

[Anonymous Coward]

That's ok, when this story comes up as a dupe, it'll still be a million -- in seven days!

slashdot -- old news for nerds, now with twice the repetition! Now with twice the repetition!

Re:Is it for me?

[M.C. Hampster]

Oops, did I just violate the DMCA?

Um, no. But we understand you had to throw that in there for some karma. Thanks.

Re:Is it for me?

[mopslik]

If I don't have a mc, windows, or an ipod, am I left out in the cold?

I know. I tried to install iTunes on my IBM PC XT, but couldn't jam the CD into the 5 1/4" drive. Insensitive clods!

WOW!!! A Million Songs!

[BlackBolt]

The good publicity Apple's sure to get from this would almost make it worth their while to buy those songs themselves...

...hmm... wait a minute...

No, sorry, my bad. It wasn't Apple. It was me. I admit it. I was the one who bought those songs. I just wanted to see if their servers could withstand a vicious one-man slashdotting...

It can - apparently the iTunes server's not running Windows. But I'll try again tonight, this time with my friend Chris buying the same songs simultaneously. Then I'll get Greg and Dave to help me buy whole albums at a time, and pretty soon, Steve Jobs will crumble in terror and BEG us to stop our vicious assault on their site!

Steve Jobs, I warned you - I've got my VISA, and I'm ready to
take.
you.
down.

You didn't care when I started buying iPod after iPod in an attempt to exhaust your assembly line workers in a one-man iPod Slashdotting. Well this is different. This time, I'm serious and I've upped my VISA limits. Your site is toast. Get ready to rumble!

Signed, your pal
Hackmaster Fred

Re:Lot's of sales... No profit...

[MG]

Errr... I mean Apple and BSD are dead.

No, no. You mean BSD is dying and Apple is beleaguered.

Re:Lot's of sales... No profit...

[TopShelf]

80 cents to the record companies who have done essentially NOTHING except allow a form of sales that requires them to produce no physical product.


Well, how else will their lawyers get paid? Settlements from 12 year-old girls and college students only go so far...

Re:Lot's of sales... No profit...

[Geek of Tech]

Yeah really! Been out three and half whole days and only a million sells.... Gotta wonder how they can stay afloat.

[/Sarcasm]

Been three days. Mostlikely, the number of ITunes downloads will slow down, but the buys should keep going fairly well.

Yep... I downloaded those ONE MILLION SONGS...!

[jbuilder]

And man my wife is gonna be pissed when she sees the Amex Platinum bill. What could I do? I'm trying to keep my Apple stock share up...! It *seemed* reasonable to do at the time....

Glad I had lot of CDRs lying around....

Re:Wrong

[GreyPoopon]

for christ's sakes, this thing hasn't even been out a week and everyone's bitching about what it doesn't do.

You're new here, aren't you? :-)

Re:Wrong!

[Anonymous Coward]

We need to DEMAND nothing less than total SHN, FLAC, APE, and OGG support. Anything less is denying the most vocal .5% of users the features they can't live without.

Proactive dissing

[Infonaut]

I'm sure it's just annoying the hell out of some folks that Apple is showing so much early success with iTunes for Windows and the new iTMS. So in the spirit of service, I've rounded up some assaults on Apple that should mollify the critics.

1) Apple blew it. They came out with iTunes for Windows too late. Ha ha hah! Buymusic.com is already there first. The vaporous Dell and Microsoft services are much better on paper than than this pathetic Apple offering.

2) AAC? Beh. Give me the open standard. Give me WMP! Support standards, Apple!

3) Black turtlenecks? Who wears black turtlenecks?

4) 99 cents a song? What, do you think I'm RICH?! Give me songs for free. Artists don't get much money when they go through the iTMS anyway, so why should I give the artists anything at all? Answer me that, man.

5) They're just trying to sell iPods. So that means that even if I get the iTunes app for free and use it, Apple is screwing me over. Yeah, they're screwing me over. That's it.

Suspicious stat

[speechpoet]

Are we sure it wasn't just Cher downloading "Do You Believe" a million times?

Re:Lot's of sales... No profit...

[1029]

So the record companies have no physical product to produce, they don't have to pay for the software, or the bandwidth, and they make 80% of the money for doing essentially nothing.

Oh I know! In fact, this reminds me of those damned crooks at [evil corp]. I order something from them, pay $50 for it, and UPS only sees... what, $2, $3.50 max? I mean, UPS packs, ships, and verifies delivery of everything I ordered. Yet [evil corp] is getting over 90% of the money. And for what? [Evil corp] didn't have to buy planes and trucks to deliver their wares. They didn't even pay for the boxes or the shipping labels. They did NEXT TO NOTHING... except produce the gadgets I ordered.

Re:So, Slashdot pirates...

[Anonymous Coward]

hello clueless newbie.

Kazaa has always been about AMATEUR PORN. It's free, legal, plentiful, and highly arousing. You can make some yourself, if YOU ACTUALLY HAD A GIRLFRIEND.

Rephrasing the headline

[inkswamp]

"Apple offers 1 million clues to RIAA; none taken so far."

Re: Apple is dead

[Anonymous Coward]

Does beating off to my MacZones catalog count?