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If any song was to be the 1,000,000,000 song it should have been total eclipse of the heart by bonnie tyler.
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iTunes 1 Billion Song Contest Ends
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alexeismertin said:
Well it's not as bad as Avril Lavinge for the 1 Millionth download
_bnkr612 said:
Yeah it is pretty crap choice of music. At least you could have been caught downloading something decent like some NIN, Puscifer, Alice in Chains or a hot Spices Girl's Video clip then you would look cool and not get so paid out for a Coldplay download
I would have liked to have seen "David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans" as the 1 Billionth download, it would be kind of funny
The joys of the dateline - the billionth song was downloaded sometime around 7pm NZ Time, I wasn't online at the time so didnt see the exact time.nbs2 said:That was way faster than I expected. If I remember right, there were 996m and change purchased when I went to bed last night (I was tired, went to bed early), so I figured sometime today I could make the purchase and be good. But, wow, I didn't expect anticipation would bump sales up that much that fast...
Well, congrats to the winner. Maybe they can do what I would have done - one iPod to each member of my and my wife's immediate family and one for my wife. the iMac was for me
Try Clocks or Speed of Sound.Seasought said:
Much betterColdplay is my favorite band...Speed of Sound is the worst song on that album.
He could have at least purchased it 3 songs before he did...So it would have landed on "The Hardest part" by Coldplay which happens to be their next single. That would have been a good marketing scheme for Coldplay.
He could have at least purchased it 3 songs before he did...So it would have landed on "The Hardest part" by Coldplay which happens to be their next single. That would have been a good marketing scheme for Coldplay.
photobiker said:
Pierre, don't feel too bad about it. I noticed discrepancies between the Apple front page counter, the counter on the billon tunes pages, and the counter inside the iTunes store, often by several thousand each. So there was really no easy way to tell what was the "real" number, anyway.
dr_lha said:Yeah, I think this about every contest that doesn't involve cash prizes. Mainly because my wife was "lucky" enough to win a BMW Z3 in Vegas. The car was $35,000 according to the tax document, so about $8500 in taxes (her income was zero at the time, and we were unmarried). She had to sell the car and made a loss of $10,000 on that, so all in all she ended up with about half of what the car is worth and a lot of hassle.
Still mustn't complain, leaving Vegas $17,500 up is great.
Our local PBS station was selling $100 tickets to win a similar BMW convertible. However, the fine print said that the winner must be prepared to pay $xxxxx for taxes at the time of winning, in order to receive the car. So I decided against entering
I much prefer American Express' way of dealing with cars and contests. Their recent contest had a chance to pay $5000 for yet another BMW. Which doesn't sound great, until you realize... you're not paying the tax you'd pay if you actually won the car outright. And the car goes on the books at $5K, which means your TTL is probably cheaper, also.Still, I agree, $17.5K after sale is just fine, too.
Man, I wonder what hes gonna do with all those ipods.
I just saw a news report on that where they were interviewing the kid and he was using a pc. Judging by how the kid talked about it, he will probably sell 8 out of the 10 ipods, keep one to himself and give the other one to a friend, then sell the imac.
I just saw a news report on that where they were interviewing the kid and he was using a pc. Judging by how the kid talked about it, he will probably sell 8 out of the 10 ipods, keep one to himself and give the other one to a friend, then sell the imac.
Ungreatful Children!Glenn Wolsey said:Grrr, why couldn't a Mac Fanboy win it
As a side note is it just me or is www.macrumors.com down?
We'll do better next time
I published an afterword on my "more accurate than Apple's" counter page...
http://www.BillionTunesCounter.com/afterword2006.html
If you just want the conclusions:
- In the end, the billion was likely reached around 9:33:30pm (Pacific Time).
- My counter was 2 minutes 30 seconds behind for the billion (while Apple's counter, depending on which machine you looked at, was 3 to 10 minutes behind).
- On many other milestones, my counter was less than 10 seconds off (compared to a minute or so for Apple's).
- I'll try to do better next time with a better UI and better extrapolations, especially for the final milestone.
And of course, it was all made and ran on a Mac!
Voilà. It was fun. Hope you liked it...
Pierre Saslawsky
http://www.BillionTunesCounter.com
I published an afterword on my "more accurate than Apple's" counter page...
http://www.BillionTunesCounter.com/afterword2006.html
If you just want the conclusions:
- In the end, the billion was likely reached around 9:33:30pm (Pacific Time).
- My counter was 2 minutes 30 seconds behind for the billion (while Apple's counter, depending on which machine you looked at, was 3 to 10 minutes behind).
- On many other milestones, my counter was less than 10 seconds off (compared to a minute or so for Apple's).
- I'll try to do better next time with a better UI and better extrapolations, especially for the final milestone.
And of course, it was all made and ran on a Mac!
Voilà. It was fun. Hope you liked it...
Pierre Saslawsky
http://www.BillionTunesCounter.com
photobiker, I'd like to thank you on behalf of all of us iTunes gluttons for the work you put into BillionTunesCounter.com. You did a fantastic job with the data Apple revealed. I agree that a peek at Alex Ostrovsky's purchase history would be very helpful.
I've studied my own purchase history from last night and I am pretty sure that purchases do not register as contest entries at the time you click BUY or confirm them, but rather in sync with some part of the downloading process. But I can't tell if it is the start or end of that process.
I was closer to hitting the mark than I was for the half-a-billion contest. Last time I both undershot it and overshot it by 5 minutes. This time I purchased a song within 30 seconds of your estimated milestone time.
I've studied my own purchase history from last night and I am pretty sure that purchases do not register as contest entries at the time you click BUY or confirm them, but rather in sync with some part of the downloading process. But I can't tell if it is the start or end of that process.
I was closer to hitting the mark than I was for the half-a-billion contest. Last time I both undershot it and overshot it by 5 minutes. This time I purchased a song within 30 seconds of your estimated milestone time.
artifex said:
Not true, the T&S of the AMex contests says you will get a 1099-mISC for the difference in what you paid and the fair market value. so your still SOL.
Ringo said:No i cant load it too... I hope the guy is kind of happy with is new mac
He's selling it...
that's cheap..
You know how the winner bought Speed of Sound?? Well I was sitting there watching that stupid counter and hit buy Speed of Sound on 999,999,999!! Same song!! How cheap is that???
You know how the winner bought Speed of Sound?? Well I was sitting there watching that stupid counter and hit buy Speed of Sound on 999,999,999!! Same song!! How cheap is that???
I was waiting for the counter to click over. I was watching the iTMS counter (kept refreshing it) and ended up buying two songs.
"Died" by Alice In Chains
"Mean Streets" by Van Halen
I had thought that last song was purchased around 10:37pm MST. The winning song was purchased at 12:38a EST. I missed it by a minute.
Oh well. I got two cool songs.
Time to wait for the next contest.
"Died" by Alice In Chains
"Mean Streets" by Van Halen
I had thought that last song was purchased around 10:37pm MST. The winning song was purchased at 12:38a EST. I missed it by a minute.
Oh well. I got two cool songs.
Time to wait for the next contest.
How is the luster going to be gone from a product that still works and functions like its supposed to ? What if he has 3rd gen and this will be an upgrade? OR he can easily sell couple to get the lastest greast thing so it can luster.kasei said: