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- GeForce8800GTX, on 10/10/2007, -7/+81P2P user downloads 3 quadrillionth song.
- pscohn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+51Quote Jerry Seinfeld - "Why are they still counting? They should just put up a sign that says 'McDonald's - we're doing very well.'"
- kirb59y, on 10/10/2007, -4/+37iTunes sold One Billion songs in its first 34 months (April 2003 to February 2006) and now two Billion More in half the time (17 months).
- BWhaler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21I would buy so many more songs if they would get more iTunes Plus content.
Better bit rate and no DRM = More Sales. - one1plus1one, on 10/10/2007, -8/+28Over 3 billion served at Mc-Apple.
(Sorry I couldn't resist!) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18For comparison, Napster at its height served 2.79 billion songs in one month. And that was back in the days before torrents.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14That's 117 million songs per month.
3.9 million songs per day
161,000 songs per hour
2687 songs per minute
44 songs per second.
That's a whole lotta do-ra-me bandwidth. - Light0, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16And to think, 15 years ago CD's wowed people...
Technology is evolving at an exponential rate. - tmyprod, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Well, what was the 3 billionth song?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10@juicebag
> Stuff like iTunes encourages bands to make albums with just one good song.
Ha! The record industry was producing album filler long before iTunes, long before the CD, even. Ever heard, say, any album recorded in the 80s?
If anything, iTunes encourages record companies to produce better albums, since they can no longer get away with selling albums that have only one good song.
Thom Yorke once said the Album would die as it's an unnatural music format, and I totally agree. I like albums as much as the next guy, and I only buy full albums on iTunes, but there are very, very few whole albums produced. For musicians, EPs are much, much easier to produce than full albums, and I'd much rather have an EP with 5 great songs than a LP with 5 great songs and 7 filler tracks. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/07/31itunes.html - blogspam removed.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7In 1992, people were wowed by *portable* CD players, i.e. the Discman.
They were crazy expensive, had no battery life, and they broke if you looked at them funny. Not to mention the skipping and disc scratching.
We've come farther than you think. - TheNik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6They're the same people that type "M$" and "***** the **AA". They only say these things to get eProps, duhh.
- themonkeysaid, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8half a song for everyone on earth o_O
- ShorXrorE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5thats funny, i just downloaded my 3 billionth song.
- soopafly, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7You're such a rebel.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You could substitute Apple for any other company in your little rant. So what? It's a major milestone for iTunes. Get over your jealousy.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6If an artist is that good I'm sure everyone who appreciates them will buy their whole CDs. I do, for some of the ones I really enjoy. In the meantime, the vast majority of crap on CDs today is filler for a few good songs that no one wants but until iTunes and friends everyone was stuck with whether they agreed or not. With a few exceptions, artists generally don't have enough creativity to consistently turn out good music. Most of the time it's a quick flare of genius or two and it's over. I for one welcome our new singles overlords. They should have taken over sooner.
- Burn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4***** the ^(RI|MP)AA$.
- devilbody, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Well, I was trying to get all my songs back!
- awhiteflame, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"What is their ultimate goal? Just to have cows surrendering themselves? 'I'd like to turn myself in.. I can see the sign, we realise we have little chance.. We'd like to be a happy meal, if that's at all possible'"
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah! Why are Indies still DRMed?
- tothemax64, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Um... no its forcing bands to make the whole cd good or people just wont buy the whole thing and just buy the good songs....
- DoTheFandango, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Because sometimes it's just easier to click one button for .99$ to download and listen to a song on your computer than search, sort, download, and hope that the user on Soulseek/Limewire/Frostwire/Whatever can upload faster than .2 Kbps and that they have a decent bitrate version of your song.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Go back to Russia.
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You must be joking. You're actually trying to convince us that vinyl is better quality than digital? Pathetic. Keep to your vinyl and spare our souls.
- darkyoshi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yet you complain when somebody cheats something out of you...
- awhiteflame, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So what if you don't have internet? Now you're forced to pay for everyone else's music?
We're not communists, here. :P - one1plus1one, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5What?! People are still typing that joke about how people still buy music and use myspace?
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3People pay neoblaque for the time he spends at work? Cattle/sheep/lemmings
- link5280, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I remember Jobs stating only 3% of the tunes in a persons iTune library (on average) is purchased through iTunes. So 3 billion = 3%?
- tnoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Another interesting way to look at it: there are on average 30 songs purchased per iPod though iTunes. When I think of it that way, I'm kinda surprized its not much higher.
- nreynolds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2people that aren't ***** do, yes.
- nreynolds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I saw a bunch of stuff at this store and they didn't have any security dealies(what are they called?....) so I could've taken them for free, but some people call that stealing.
guess what? Intellectual property IS STILL PROPERTY.
I download illegally too, but at least I acknowledge that it's wrong, and I usually only do it if I've already bought the cd or supported the band in other ways. - prdz3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I download more if they make all their music DRM free and have Higher bitrates...I mean I'll start downloading from itunes....
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1lol, win
- jaygee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I miss Napster
- RobotBuddha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1While I agree on the sentement, I think the application is misplaced here. I care, because I want a way to legally buy music with little to no DRM. I really don't mind having to burn it to a cd first to get the mp3s, and once done I have them. What's especially great about it is that the little guy and the huge record industry backed giant are now in thesame storefront in this virtual space. And that's good for me, and everybody.
- danomagnum, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was, and I know what you mean... it's a sad time...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm sure they'll mention it when they unveil the next-gen iMacs, iPods, and iWork next week.
- Ravatar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Lucky for you, they're working on it.
- Jukey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you could have just bought them on ebay, ripped them and then sold them again
- SuperSunny, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Works for me. Thank Torrents! Saved me almost 2000 dollars.
- bluegender, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm sorry but what are you implying, have you taken into account that in 2003-2004 there weren't as many songs available and the iPod was just barely catching ?
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2BitTorrent offers 3 billionth discography. People go wild.
- NSResponder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Nonsense. The bundling of all the crap songs with the one or two songs that anyone actually wanted is one of the more obnoxious habits that the record companies have had for as long as they've been selling albums. If the song you wanted wasn't one that the company thought was popular enough to release as a single, you had to spring for the whole album if you wanted it at all.
Now that we can buy what we actually WANT, it's not so easy to just stick a bunch of filler on the record.
-jcr - kjcdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The higher bit rate has been proven to make no affect on the song quality to an average user.
- DoTheFandango, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Shockingly, yes -- people do care that iTunes has done ~$300 Billion dollars in sales.
- DoTheFandango, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i meant 3 Billion, eesh.
- mightymouse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1To think, if they charged that extra 1 cent per song (1 dollar instead of 0.99) cents, assuming a unified currency across all stores, they would've made an extra $30,000,000 in revenue!
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