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…
Date | Songs Purchased (millions) |
Source |
05/15/2003 | 1 | Apple |
06/23/2003 | 5 | Apple |
09/8/2003 | 10 | Apple |
12/15/2003 | 25 | Apple |
03/15/2004 | 50 | Apple |
07/12/2004 | 100 | CNN |
12/16/2004 | 200 | Apple |
07/18/2005 | 500 | Apple |
02/24/2006 | 1000 | Apple |
01/09/2007 | 2000 | Apple |
graph created using NCES Create a Graph
I think you would be better off with a semi-log graph.
,dave
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