Sales milestones ITunes Store

1 sales milestones

1.1 music
1.2 video
1.3 applications
1.4 market share

sales milestones
music



100 million songs sold: july 11, 2004


(kevin britten of hays, kansas, bought 100 millionth song, , twenty-year-old received call steve jobs congratulating him.)


125 million songs sold: september 1, 2004
150 million songs sold: october 14, 2004
200 million songs sold: december 16, 2004


(ryan alekman of belchertown, massachusetts, bought 200 millionth song, 1 of tracks on u2 s digital box set complete u2.)


250 million songs sold: january 24, 2005
300 million songs sold: march 2, 2005
400 million songs sold: may 10, 2005

on july 5, 2005, apple announced promotion counting down half billion songs sold.

500 million songs sold: july 18, 2005


(amy greer of lafayette, indiana, bought 500 millionth song, mississippi girl faith hill.)


850 million songs sold: january 10, 2006
1 billion songs sold: february 23, 2006


(alex ostrovsky of west bloomfield, michigan, bought billionth song, speed of sound coldplay. later got call steve jobs news sixteen-year-old getting ten ipods, imac, $10,000 music gift certificate, , scholarship established in name @ juilliard school.)


1.5 billion songs sold: september 12, 2006
2 billion songs sold: january 10, 2007
2.5 billion songs sold: april 9, 2007
3 billion songs sold: july 31, 2007
4 billion songs sold: january 15, 2008
5 billion songs sold: june 19, 2008
6 billion songs sold: january 6, 2009
8 billion songs sold: july 21, 2009
8.6 billion songs sold: september 9, 2009
10 billion songs sold: february 24, 2010


(louie sulcer of woodstock, georgia, downloaded guess things happen way johnny cash. @ 71 years old, oldest milestone winner date. received call steve jobs , $10,000 itunes gift card.)


15 billion songs sold: june 6, 2011
20 billion songs sold: september 12, 2012
25 billion songs sold: february 6, 2013
35 billion songs sold: may 28, 2014



video



1 million videos sold: october 31, 2005
3+ million videos sold: december 6, 2005
8 million videos sold: january 10, 2006
15 million videos sold: february 23, 2006
45 million videos sold: september 12, 2006
50 million television episodes sold: january 10, 2007
1.3 million feature-length films sold: january 10, 2007
2 million feature-length films sold: july 31, 2007
200 million television episodes sold: october 16, 2008
1+ million hd episodes sold: october 16, 2008



applications



10 million apps downloaded: july 14, 2008
100 million apps downloaded: september 9, 2008
200 million apps downloaded: october 22, 2008
300 million apps downloaded: december 5, 2008
500 million apps downloaded: january 16, 2009
800 million apps downloaded: march 17, 2009
1 billion apps downloaded: april 23, 2009
1.5 billion apps downloaded: july 14, 2009
1.8 billion apps downloaded: september 9, 2009
2 billion apps downloaded: september 28, 2009
3 billion apps downloaded: january 5, 2010
7 billion apps downloaded: october 20, 2010
10 billion apps downloaded: january 22, 2011
15 billion apps downloaded: july 7, 2011
25 billion apps downloaded: march 5, 2012
30 billion apps downloaded: june 11, 2012
35 billion apps downloaded: october 23, 2012
40 billion apps downloaded: january 7, 2013
50 billion apps downloaded: may 16, 2013
60 billion apps downloaded: october 22, 2013
75 billion apps downloaded: june 2, 2014
100 billion apps downloaded: june 8, 2015
25+ billion apps downloaded:december, 2016



market share



on september 12, 2006, steve jobs announced in s showtime keynote apple had 88% of legal music download market.
on april 11, 2007, apple announced itunes store had sold more 2 million movies, making world s popular online movie store.
on february 26, 2008, itunes store surpassed best buy become second-largest music vendor in behind wal-mart, , became number 1 on april 3, 2008.
on october 10, 2012, itunes store reported have 64% share of online music market, , 29% share of music sales worldwide.






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