PRESS RELEASE
May 14, 2003
iTunes Music Store Tops Two Million Song Downloads
CUPERTINO, California—May 14, 2003—Apple® today announced that over twomillion songs have been purchased and downloaded from its revolutionaryiTunes® Music Store since its debut 16 days ago. Continuing the trend setduring the first week, over half of the songs purchased to date werepurchased as albums, further dispelling concerns that selling music on aper-track basis will destroy album sales.
“Response to the iTunes Music Store has been phenomenal—we've clearly hit achord with users,” said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. “We're adding new songsevery day, giving music lovers even more reasons to legally download theirfavorite music.”
The iTunes Music Store lets customers quickly find, purchase and downloadthe music they want for just 99 cents per song, without subscription fees.The iTunes Music Store offers groundbreaking personal use rights, includingburning songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, listening tosongs on an unlimited number of iPods, playing songs on up to threeMacintosh® computers, and using songs in any application on the Mac®,including iPhoto™, iMovie™ and iDVD™.
Over 4,300 new songs were added to the iTunes Music Store yesterday,including five albums from The Doors; new featured artist Fischerspooner'salbum “#1” plus an exclusive remix of their hit “Emerge;” new albums fromCold, Lizz Wright, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; pre-release tracks from upcomingalbums by Michelle Branch, Da Brat, Jesse Harris and Kenna; and, completingher catalog of music now available on the store, Alanis Morissette's albums“Under Rug Swept” and “Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.” Additionally,albums representing diverse genres of music—from rock and alternative tojazz and classical—were added from artists including John Coltrane, CharlesMingus, Nina Simone, Paul Oakenfold and Staind.
The iTunes Music Store features over 200,000 songs from major musiccompanies including BMG, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal and Warnerso music fans can easily find the music they love or discover exclusivetracks and download them directly into their iTunes 4 music library withone-click. Songs are downloaded in pristine digital quality and can beburned onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, played on up tothree Macintosh computers, listened to on an unlimited number of iPods, andused in other Mac applications, including iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD.
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