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iTMS launched in United States.
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One million songs sold.
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2 million songs sold.
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5 million songs sold.
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10 million songs sold.
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13 million songs sold. iTunes available for Windows.
iTunes available for Windows. -
25 million songs sold.
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50 million songs sold.
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70 million songs sold.
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iTMS opens in the UK, France, and Germany.
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100 million songs sold - mostly in the US, the three additional stores had only opened less than a month earlier. The grand prize for the 100 million contest was a 17" PowerBook, a 40GB iPod and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs. Every 100,000th
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150 million songs sold.
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iTMS opens in the European Union.
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iTMS opens in Canada.
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200 million songs sold.
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250 million songs sold.
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400 million songs sold. iTMS opens in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
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500 million songs sold.
At this point, iTMS was available in 19 countries: US, Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.
The grand prize consisted of 10 iPods, a 10,000 song gift card and 10 50 song gift cards for the iPods, four tickets to see a Coldplay concert in front-row seats plus transportation, and a backstage pass -
1 billion songs sold.
One notable addition to the list of countries at this point was Japan, and there were a number of sub-sites, like a French and a Dutch site for Belgium. The grand prize at the billion consisted of: a 20" iMac, 10 fifth generation iPods, and a $10,000 Music Card. In addition, Apple established a scholarship to the world-renowned Juilliard School in the name of the winner. For every 100,000th song from 950,100,000 to 99,900,000, a 4GB iPod nano with a $100 -
Steve Jobs reports 1.5 billion songs sold.
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Jobs reports 2 billion songs sold.
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Apple reports 3 billion songs sold.
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Steve Jobs reports 4 billion songs sold "as of last week."