{"id":81,"date":"2006-02-26T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2023-01-18T12:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:28:06","slug":"itunes-song-purchases-plotted-on-a-graph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/26\/itunes-song-purchases-plotted-on-a-graph\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Song Purchases plotted on a graph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/19\/104795445_1757b92363_s.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Apple recently announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2006\/02\/23iTunes-Music-Store-Downloads-Top-One-Billion-Songs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 billion songs purchased<\/a> on iTunes. I dug around the Apple press releases and tracked down some of the major iTunes milestones over the last few years. It&#8217;s amazing that there have been 500 million songs purchased since July 2005. That&#8217;s <strong>500 million songs purchased in 7 months<\/strong> for an average of <strong>71 million songs purchased per month<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2\/26\/06 Update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional data point: 850 million on Jan 10, 2006 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/news\/2006\/01\/10\/livekeynote\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced at Macworld<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td><td><strong>Songs Purchased <\/strong><strong> (millions)<\/strong><\/td><td>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>05\/15\/2003<\/td><td>1<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2003\/may\/05musicstore.html\">Apple<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>06\/23\/2003<\/td><td>5<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2003\/jun\/23itunes.html\">Apple<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>09\/8\/2003<\/td><td>10<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2003\/sep\/08musicstore.html\">Apple<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12\/15\/2003<\/td><td>25<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2003\/dec\/15itunes.html\">Apple<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>03\/15\/2004<\/td><td>50<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2004\/mar\/15itunes.html\">Apple<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>07\/12\/2004<\/td><td>100<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/07\/12\/technology\/apple_itunes\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">CNN<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12\/16\/2004<\/td><td>200<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2004\/dec\/16itunes.html\">Apple<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>07\/17\/2005<\/td><td>500<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/500million\/\">Apple<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>02\/24\/2006<\/td><td>1000<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2006\/02\/23iTunes-Music-Store-Downloads-Top-One-Billion-Songs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/36\/104796032_67aaa81a24_o.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\"><em>graph created using <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/nceskids\/Graphing\/\">NCES Create a Graph<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple recently announced 1 billion songs purchased on iTunes. I dug around the Apple press releases and tracked down some of the major iTunes milestones over the last few years. It&#8217;s amazing that there have been 500 million songs purchased since July 2005. That&#8217;s 500 million songs purchased in 7 months for an average of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18],"tags":[165,333],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-tech-news","tag-apple","tag-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}