Apple iTunes Music Store Weekly Download Rate Increased to 3.3 Million,
up from 2.7 million announced for the week before last Wednesday's announcement of iTunes 4.5 and the upgraded iTunes Music Store. Apple's announcement stated that music fans have purchased and downloaded a record setting 3.3 million songs from its third generation iTunes Music Store since its launch one week ago. Highlighting the popularity of its innovative new features, iTunes users have already published more than 20,000 iMixes, and those iMixes have been rated by fellow iTunes users over 50,000 times.
In addition to the 3.3 million purchased songs, iTunes users have downloaded more than 500,000 free songs from popular artists including Foo Fighters, Avril Lavigne, Courtney Love, Annie Lennox, Jane’s Addiction, Counting Crows, Renee Fleming and Nelly Furtado during Apple's week-long “Free Song of the Day” anniversary promotion.
“Our third generation iTunes Music Store just blows away any other online music service,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 700,000 songs and innovative features like iMix, it’s the easiest to use and most fun to use online music store in the world.”
[Dana Baggett]
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