Apple Announces 25 Million Song Downloads

Tweder writes "On Apple's iTunes site, Apple has announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 25 Million songs from the iTunes Music Store. It seems the launch of the ITMS on the Windows platform has boosted sales tremendously." I suppose this is where I am expected to say something along the lines of, "I thought the recording industry said that this business model wouldn't work, that people won't pay for what they can download for free?" So, there you go.

greetings

[natefanaro]

I for one welcome our new download what you want for a buck overlords.

Re:Breaking even yet?

[wrinkledshirt]

Yah, 25 million songs is VERY good, which works out to be about 2.5 million albums...

Actually, with the quality of music released these days, 25 million songs probably works out to be about 25 million albums.

I've downloaded 25 million songs too!

[corebreech]

What's the big deal?

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Profit?

[Lord Kano]

iTunes isn't a gamble. If at the next MacWorld Expo Steve Jobs said that Apple has banked its future on the success of iTMS the Mac faithful would start buying Yanni and John Tesh tracks in droves.

LK

Re:Where does your money go?

[InfiniteWisdom]

Not too busy to post on slashdot though, I see ;)

Guess some things ARE worth spending time on.

Re:DRM

[xeer0]

...get a good copy of Justin Timerlake singing a hip hop version of "Truckin'".

There is no such thing.

25 Million ONLY?

[Capt'n Hector]

I really expected more by now. In iTMS's first week of existence, Mac OS X users bought 1 Million songs. considering that's something like 3% of computer users (make it 5% for simplicity's sake,) Shouldn't we have seen about 25 million sales within the first week of the Windows release?

I think we all know what's happening here: the same computer users who put up with windows are content with the 30 second song previews.

the writing is on the wall

[commodoresloat]

It's worse than it looks. In the first two weeks Apple sold two million songs. It's been seven months and they've only sold 25 million? That's a million a week the first two weeks, and then only 23 million in the next 28 weeks. If current trends continue, we're looking at a significant dropoff of song downloads. The writing is on the wall, folks; Apple is dying!

Uh...Devin the Dude has a few songs on iTMS

[hargettp]

Every day, the selection of music on iTunes expands in all kinds of directions. For me, I was elated a few months ago when it seemed every great jazz artist ever recorded was "suddenly" they appeared on iTunes--in volume. Try the iTunes Link Maker [apple.com] and run a search to see if your artists are there. Everybody has to make their own choices, but I personally have faith that Apple's clout (and excellent design) will continue to increase the diversity of musical offerings on iTunes.

Re:Why do we need the recording industry?

[hesiod]

> Ani DiFranco has had songs in the top ten on iTunes Music Store. I think that supports your theory

It supports one or two of my theories:
1) ITunes got hacked by a A.D. Fan
2) People really are stupid enough to listen to that crap.