In a press release “Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 200 million songs from its European iTunes Music Stores in just over two years, and the iTunes music catalogue now includes more than three million songs from major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels.
Launched in the UK, France and Germany in June 2004, the iTunes Music Store now operates in 17 European countries including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. All iTunes Music Stores offer the same innovative features, breakthrough pricing and seamless integration with iPod that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. … The number of songs downloaded and purchased from the iTunes Music Stores in Europe have tripled in the past year from 50 million to 200 million. …
The iTunes Music Store features a selection of over 2,500 music videos, Pixar short films, and more than three million songs from the major music companies and over 1,000 independent labels.”
What do these stats say:
1. 200 million songs over two years; the number of songs downloaded and purchased from the iTunes Music Stores in Europe have tripled in the past year from 50 million to 200 million. So iTunes in Europe is growing fast.
2. On January 12, 2005 Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs said during the MacWorld conference in California that 230 million songs have been sold via iTunes worldwide. iTunes Europe is reaching the level of iTunes worldwide of beginning 2005 one and a half years later.
3. The population of Europe is about 800 million people. There is still a lot of marketing to be done for legal music.
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