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| SAN
JOSE, Calif. - Now selling at a rate of more than a million downloads
per day, Apple Computer Inc. said Monday customers have purchased
a total more than 250 million songs from its online iTunes Music Store.
The store, now available in 15 countries, is selling 1.25 million
songs per day, which puts the annual run rate of almost half a billion
songs per year, Apple said. Apple helped invigorate the market for
legal music downloads when it launched the iTunes store in April 2003,
but its robust sales continues to far outpace rival services. The
success is due in part to Apple's wildly popular iPod portable music
players, which are designed not to play songs purchased from competing
online music stores. The Cupertino-based company sold 4.5 million
iPods in the fourth quarter and more than 10 million since its debut
in October 2001. |
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