iTunes Song Purchases plotted on a graph

Apple recently announced 1 billion songs purchased on iTunes. I dug around the Apple press releases and tracked down some of the major iTunes milestones over the last few years. It’s amazing that there have been 500 million songs purchased since July 2005. That’s 500 million songs purchased in 7 months for an average of 71 million songs purchased per month!

2/26/06 Update:

Additional data point: 850 million on Jan 10, 2006 (announced at Macworld)

Date

Songs Purchased (millions)

Source

05/15/20031Apple
06/23/20035Apple
09/8/200310Apple
12/15/200325Apple
03/15/200450Apple
07/12/2004100CNN
12/16/2004200Apple
07/17/2005500Apple
02/24/20061000Apple

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