iTunes leads 50 million song downloads: today in Apple History

March 15, 2004: The iTunes Music Store hits a musical milestone after selling astonishing 50 million songs in less than a year. The performance cements Apple's place in the center of the rapidly changing music business – at least at the moment.

“Crossing 50 million songs is a big milestone for iTunes and the emerging digital music time,” says Steve Jobs in a explanation. “With over 50 million songs that have already been downloaded and additional 2.5 million songs per week are downloaded, it is increasingly difficult to imagine that others ever catch up with iTunes.”

iTunes leads the music business with 50 million downloads in the storm

While the 2004 numbers have undoubtedly proven impressive, Apple sold today Billions From songs by iTunes. The company has known a long time ago the announcement of the new Landmark sales level that it reached. In other words, Apple just started.

At that time, jobs (exceptionally) played down the speed with which iTunes took over the music industry. However, he was completely about how far the rest of the Apple competition was. Just a few months later, Apple hit the 100 million song barrier.

Within five years after the opening of his virtual doors on April 28, 2003, Apple became the largest music provider (not only online) in the USA. By February 2010 it grew to the largest worldwide.

Apple distributes its early lead?

Ultimately, it took the increase in streaming services such as Spotify for Apple to lose its position as Clear Market Place Leader. From 2024, Spotify will head the package with regard to paid subscribers with more than 236 million subscribers paid. Apple Music has an estimated 101 million users without being available free of charge. Music downloads are pretty dead in comparison.

Nevertheless, iTunes Sales milestones like those who were celebrated today always make fun to look back. They remind us of how much further Apple had to climb at that time.

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