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Thanks Mahalo Daily!

It took a little less than a year to go from 1 billion to 2 billion songs sold on iTunes.  It took a little over six months to go from 2 billion to 3 billion songs sold.  Will we see 4 billion songs sold by the end of the year?

Analysis elsewhere:

• The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• Blackfriars’ Marketing
• B2.0-The Utility Belt
• Epicenter
• Download Squad
• Good Morning Silicon Valley
• MacUser

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Jeremiah Owyang walks the line at the Palo Alto Apple Store.

Last February, I posted a graph showing the growth of the iTunes music store. Back then the big news was that Apple had sold their one billionth song. Lost in the shuffle of Steve Jobs’ huge announcements at MacWorld yesterday was the news that Apple recently sold their 2 billionth song on iTunes. That’s another billion songs in less than a year. So much for the recent speculation that iTunes sales are slowing. Here’s the updated graph…

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