iTunes song downloads hit 10 billion

By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor Published: 9:18AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Apple voiced that moe than 10 billion songs had been downloaded from the iTunes Music Store

The aim was reached at around 1am this morning. Apple is giving afar a $10,000 iTunes present document to symbol the occasion, and is approaching to make known the leader in the subsequent couple of days.

Apple has additionally expelled a list of the twenty most-downloaded songs of all time. Topping the draft is I Gotta Feeling, by the Black Eyed Peas, with Lady GaGa"s Poker Face at series two. Coldplay"s Viva La Vida is the highest-placed entrance for a British action at series five, whilst Leona Lewis"s Bleeding Love is at series nine. Hey There, Delilah by the Plain White Ts is a warn entrance at series 18.

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Although Apple expelled iTunes in 2001, it was primarily usually used as a approach to organize a user"s song collect up for playback on a computer or iPod. In 2003, Apple non-stop the iTunes Music Store, that authorised users to buy and download songs from a living room of some-more than 200,000 tracks.

Apple has been credited with kick-starting the digital song series with the launch of the iPod and iTunes, and it has left on to browbeat the song market, most to the exasperation of a little jot down labels, that disliked Apple"s primary prosaic pricing structure, and the approach it authorised people to collect their prime marks from an manuscript rather than have to buy the full CD.

"iTunes altered the approach you buy music, creation songs and albums accessible for download, day or night," pronounced Apple. "Seven years later, were about to applaud the greatest miracle for music, nonetheless - 10 billion songs downloaded."

Despite the outrageous success of the iTunes store, a little artists, together with The Beatles, have not done their song accessible for digital download, preferring instead to go on with sales of earthy CDs.

In the last monetary quarter, the iTunes Music Store generated $520 million (�340 million) of income for Apple, according to Gene Munster, an researcher with Piper Jaffray.