Philip Lyupke of Germany today, downloaded the 25-billionth song in iTunes. Such impressive numbers Apple said iTunes Gift Card prize of € 10,000 for the lucky and the Teuton-school press release.
"We are grateful to our customers, whose passion for music in the past 10 years has made iTunes the number one seller of audio content in the world - said Eddy Cue, senior vice president of Internet services development and Apple. - On average, more than 15 000 songs downloaded in a minute, iTunes Store brings together music fans and their favorite artists, including not only a world of sensation, such as Adele or Coldplay, but also young artists, such as The Lumineers, to the extent that we even never dreamed of. "
As noted by the company in its appeal, in catalogs iTunes Store contains more than 26 million songs from 119 countries. Given the wide availability of the service, it can safely be called the most popular music store in the world. iTunes Music Store was launched April 28, 2003, or, according to Wolfram Alpha, exactly 9 years, 9 months and 9 days ago (3572 days).
For each of the 3572 days of the iTunes Store has 6,990,000 downloads 4860 downloads happening in the moment, or 81 per second. During the time of writing this news could be downloaded 92,340 songs. Very good result!
