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European iTunes Music Store Tops 200 Million Songs Sold

Apple has sold a lot of songs at its European iTunes stores. As of the 2nd of this month, they have sold 200 million songs.

Not bad.

Apparently, while some orgs pondered whether Apple's cross platform, user-friendly, iPod-compatible music sales were okay for European consumers, those same consumers clicked their way into Apple's good graces.

Apple has really grown up since the 1970s. I remember decades ago reading that Apple did not want to sell any of its computers to the military.

Now, Apple sells its products worldwide to people in Asia, Europe, and of course the US.

Their products are manufactured in China and maybe elsewhere, designed and programmed in most - but not all - cases right here in the US. Of course, the parts for the Macintosh and the iPod come from all over the world.

Apple is quite the trailblazer.

Four years ago, Apple was not really a music company - they were a computer company, period.

Now they sell the leading MP3 music products and quite a few songs to boot. Name one store you have been in lately that sells 3 million different songs.

That is about 300,000 albums worth of songs.

Apple is doing okay.

European iTunes Music Store Tops 200 Million Songs Sold:

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.

posted by John Collins @ 10:16 PM