One billion songs promotion
The following statistics have been collected directly from Apple using the iTunes music store counter during the 1 billion downloads promotion period. Please keep in mind that Apple does not differentiate between sales and downloads, and that these numbers reflect downloads, which might include free songs, promotions, et cetera.
| During this time period: | max | 3620030 | min | 2662693 | avg | 3028006 |
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Apple official milestones
The data shown below reflect press release official milestones as published by Apple on their website.
At the last available reading, on 2006-02-23 iTunes had been 1032 days old, giving an average download rate of 969074 songs per day. By a simplistic logarithmic calculation, the number of downloads has doubled approximately 29 times, or about once every 34 days. Assuming Moore’s law holds, iTunes grows 1586% faster than digital storage capacity and microprocessor power.
We can try to formalize the data a little bit better. A simple linear regression to the second degree (using the least squares method) gives us the following trend:
The red line shows the best polynomial fit for the data, and we can see that if this growth continues, we expect iTunes to reach 2 billion downloads by February 2007.
These iTunes downloads stats are processed automatically and are based on official iTunes press releases and data. This site is not affiliated with iTunes or Apple in any way, and no guarantee or warranty is given for the correctness of the data. Last refreshed Thu Sep 21 20:37:30 2006 GMT.