CUPERTINO, California—July 18, 2005—Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than half a billion songs from the iTunes® Music Store. The 500 millionth song, Faith Hill’s “Mississippi Girl,” was purchased yesterday by Amy Greer from Lafayette, Indiana, and as the grand prize winner she will receive 10 iPods to share with family and friends, an iTunes gift card for 10,000 songs and an all-expenses paid trip for four to see Coldplay on their world tour.“Just over two years ago, we sold our first song. Yesterday, we sold our half billionth song. WOW!” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “As we cross this major milestone, we couldn’t be more excited about the future of digital music, iTunes and the iPod.”“Steve and Apple’s impact with their complete thought of iPod and iTunes will be looked back upon as important as any instrument or device ever created for the music industry,” said Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records.With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as integrated Podcasting support, iMix playlist sharing, seamless integration with iPod® and groundbreaking personal use rights, the iTunes Music Store is the best way for Mac® and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music online. The iTunes Music Store features more than 1.5 million songs from the major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels, 10,000 audiobooks, gift certificates and exclusive music not found anywhere else online.Apple recently launched iTunes 4.9 with everything users need to discover, subscribe, manage and listen to Podcasts built right in. iTunes customers have subscribed to more than five million Podcasts from the iTunes Podcast Directory which now features over 6,000 free audio programs, making it one of the largest Podcast directories in the world.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store. Synopsis Because of Apple itunes ease of use for downloading and obtaining music files via the internet itunes has consecutively been labeled “as important as any instrument or device ever created for the music industry” Therefore it is now obvious that the revolution of music downloads has become a very important tool for all music industries and labels because it has been a useful aid to sell files across the world, to anyone, subtracting the hassle of limited CD availability in stores. As well as internet downloads for music companies itunes and also been labeled as one of the biggest pod cast directories in the world. The article highlights that itunes itself could possibly end up being the only way to purchase music online because its success is to such a large extent, the idea of any other music download companies trying to over ride the itunes revolution is insane because of its so far success and its title of being king of the download industry. Bullet Points > Apples success and the revolution of music downloads > Itunes success and its gradual consumption of the music download world > Music download and Apple has been labeled as one of the best devices ever created for the music industry Quotes “with Apples legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as integrated pod casting support, Imix playlist sharing, seamless transition with ipod and groundbreaking personal use rights, the itunes music store is the best way for mac and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music online” “Apples impact with their complete thought of an ipod and itunes will be looked upon as important as any instrument or device ever created for the music industry” “Itunes customers have subscribed to more than five million pod casts from the itunes pod cast directory which now features over 6000 free audio programmes, making it one of the largest pod cast directories in the world”iTunes Music Store Downloads Top
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