Today, Apple-owned iTunes announced successful financial numbers concerning the sale of music from its service.
More than 250 million songs have been downloaded from iTunes, representing 70% of the global music market. Currently, an estimated 1.25 million songs are being downloaded from Apple's service a day.
"When we launched the iTunes Music Store we were hoping to sell a million songs in the first six months-now we're selling over a million songs every day, and we've sold over a quarter billion songs in total," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "iTunes is leading the way into the digital music era and together with iPod is changing the way millions of music lovers find and enjoy their music."
According to Apple, "The iTunes Music Store features more than one million songs from the major music companies and 600 independent record labels, over 9,000 audiobooks, gift certificates and exclusive music not found anywhere else online."
Apple's "rebirth" has been largely credited to the iPod and the offspring it produced; with iTunes having the most flourish.
Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest search news.
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