Billion countdown

It's 3m or so a day but I don't think it will go on that long - I'd expect the billion in about 90 minutes or so!

 

I think you're being a bit optimistic... it hasn't even reached 996M yet.

I predict it'll occur sometime late tomorrow (Wednesday evening) US time.

 

eeesh.... it's late and my brain turned off. For some reason, my brain read 999,654,000 when I glanced at it before answering rather than 995,654,000

 

maybe I should buy a song, at least give myself a chance.

Hey, nice find, thanks for the link. There was a lot of interesting information on that page.

 

Wait till there are only 5,000 songs left. Then buy 10,000 songs. You win a 10,000 iTunes gift card. Sell it on Ebay. You still get 10 iPods and an iMac!
Good deal.

 

Is an album a single transaction or 10, 12, 15 whatever individual songs? I know it's charged as a single item, how is it viewed by the counter and therefore the competition?

 

1 mil left.....

 

986000 left....

it probably be like at 7PM

 

lol i dont know that was a bad guess

 

I say 1:07 AM EST

...shrug

 

It's speeding up. I'm guessing 12:50AM EST at current speeds, but due to excitement-spurred buying, I think it'll hit ~12:31:06AM.

 

Before 11 PST.

 

We're almost there! You had a really good guesstimate! We'll be there in just a few minutes.
-Chasen

 

After you click "Buy Song", do you have to do anything else to complete the sale?

 

No. Just make sure you're at the buying point - if you've got it set up to use a shopping cart, you need to be in the cart to buy the songs. Otherwise, it's just one click and you're done.

 

All set and ready!

 

I'm assuming that, if you're buying an album or collection or added 1000 songs to your cart, what counts is when you click, so you're better off buying a bunch of songs in succession than one big order. Would you all agree?

Of course, also, there's that 1:1,000,000 shot you'll actually click anything at all during the second the billionth song is purchased to even have a shot at winning.

Still, it's fun!

 

Well, there you go, the actual count just hit 1 billion - with Apple's lagging counter soon to follow. It will be interesting to see who wins the big prize, and what song was downloaded.

 

DAMN IT!

Someone just won!