PRESS RELEASE
September 8, 2003
iTunes Music Store Sells Ten Millionth Song
Cupertino, California—September 8, 2003—Apple® today announced that musicfans have purchased and downloaded over ten million songs from the iTunes®Music Store since its launch just over four months ago, averaging over500,000 songs per week. The ten millionth song, “Complicated” by AvrilLavigne, was purchased and downloaded at 11:34 p.m. (PDT) on September 3.
The combination of the iTunes digital music jukebox, the pioneering iTunesMusic Store and the market-leading iPod™ digital music player provide userswith a complete solution for buying, managing and listening to their digitalmusic collections anywhere. The iTunes Music Store will be available toWindows users by the end of this year.
“Legally selling ten million songs online in just four months is a historicmilestone for the music industry, musicians and music lovers everywhere,”said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. “Apple offers the only complete solution fordigital music with iTunes and the amazing iPod, which now holds 10,000 songsin your pocket.”
“We are honored and grateful to be one of the top selling artists in theiTunes Music Store,” said Chris Martin, singer/songwriter of theGrammy-award winning band Coldplay. “It's clear Apple has delivered aworking and successful platform for music fans to discover artists andpurchase both albums and single songs instantly with ease. We embrace theseefforts enthusiastically and see them as the future of our business.”
The revolutionary online music store offers songs from major and independentmusic labels, groundbreaking personal use rights, and one-click downloaddirectly into Apple�s integrated digital jukebox software, iTunes�all forjust 99 cents per song. Users can listen to free 30-second previews of anysong in the store, then purchase and download their favorite songs orcomplete albums in pristine digital quality. Songs can be burned at no extracost onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, played on up to threecomputers, and listened to on an unlimited number of iPods.
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