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iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

so i was sittin here and came up with the radical idea of making a program (ok, get this) that would KEEP TRACK of the current song count! sound crazy? i know. the only thing i didnt like about the other trackers was that i had to open a new window. and i take great pride in my screen space. sooo...

i made my own little program called itunes promo count. its up in the menu bar away from everything else - and get this: IT HAS COMMAS. no more straining the eyes kids.

iTunes Promo Checkup
 
Pipian said:
You do have a number.. Look for the Recipt number
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That's not the song number - I have a receipt from feb that starts with 93. I wonder how long it takes Apple to even tell someone that they won. Do they send out an email right away, or will they wait until it's all over.
 
jessefoxperry said:
so i was sittin here and came up with the radical idea of making a program (ok, get this) that would KEEP TRACK of the current song count! sound crazy? i know. the only thing i didnt like about the other trackers was that i had to open a new window. and i take great pride in my screen space. sooo...

i made my own little program called itunes promo count. its up in the menu bar away from everything else - and get this: IT HAS COMMAS. no more straining the eyes kids.

iTunes Promo Checkup
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I get this message on startup:

Can't load the bundle.

The program will not launch. But good idea with the commas!
 
A successful promotion…

Between 6th June and when I heard about this promo (yesterday, 14:45 BST), Apple had sold over 9.5 million songs at a daily rate of around 380,000/day.

Between 14:45 yesterday and 22:00 today, Apple have sold nearly 732,000 tracks at around 390 tracks/minute, which equates to just over 562,000 tracks a day.

So, this simple promotion – costing perhaps $50,000 dollars - has increased sales by a staggering 47.72%.

Truly staggering - even if it is just a fraction of the total market for 'physical' music product.
 
MCCFR said:
Between 6th June and when I heard about this promo (yesterday, 14:45 BST), Apple had sold over 9.5 million songs at a daily rate of around 380,000/day.

Between 14:45 yesterday and 22:00 today, Apple have sold nearly 732,000 tracks at around 390 tracks/minute, which equates to just over 562,000 tracks a day.

So, this simple promotion – costing perhaps $50,000 dollars - has increased sales by a staggering 47.72%.

Truly staggering - even if it is just a fraction of the total market for 'physical' music product.
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It will be interesting to see the numbers after the contest is over. It will probably take a week for the numbers to stabilize.
 
rDLr said:
It will be interesting to see the numbers after the contest is over. It will probably take a week for the numbers to stabilize.
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Actually, this is a stabilised figure - at one point (bizarrely before the 95 million promotion kicked in sometime this morning BST), sales were running at a pro-rata 679,000/day.

And it's worth pointing out that – at 500,000 tracks a day – this will all be over by July 12.
 
I mean that a lot of people will have spent their monthly music purchasing budgets early so they will not buy more music for a while.
 
jessefoxperry said:
fixed.
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Excellent! Running it now, nice and innocuous up there in the menu bar!

Now, I'm gonna push my luck and ask whether you think you might be able to add the following options:

--Count DOWN to the next 100,000 mark (ie, right now it reads "95,275,030"; it'd be even better if it read "24,970"!)

--some sort of visual or audio alert when it gets within, say, 5,000 or 10,000 of the next mark??

Yeah, I know, an awful lot of effort for an application which will have a total life span of about a week at most! :)

Still, who knows? Perhaps Apple will keep some version of the counter code available permanently--it'd be kind of neat to have an permanent "iTunes Odometer" (sort of a monetized hit counter, if you think about it...)
 
rDLr said:
It will be interesting to see the numbers after the contest is over. It will probably take a week for the numbers to stabilize.
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I'm afraid the counters and graphs will come to a grinding halt since I'm afraid Apple will remove the data source from it's site...
 
backspinner said:
I'm afraid the counters and graphs will come to a grinding halt since I'm afraid Apple will remove the data source from it's site...
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Hopefully they'll leave it on...whether it be intentionally or accidentally. Apple has been known to leave some stuff on their website for an exceptionally long amount of time.
 
Freg3000 said:
Apple has been known to leave some stuff on their website for an exceptionally long amount of time.
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Wrong thread Freg3000, the iMac bashing thread is over here.
 
What do they mean by 50 "special" iPods?

Apple will begin the countdown to 100 million songs by giving away 50 special 20GB iPods—one to the purchaser of each 100,000th song downloaded
 
wow I cannot even log into the music store anymore... :mad:

Even worse! I keep getting an error during a purchase.

"Could not purchase 'Unknown'. An unknown error occurred (504)."


Logout of I tunes and back in tried again and got. You already purchased this song do you want to purchase it again? WTF! :mad:
 
Ut oh, I was afraid of this...

...after the initial couple of spikes, it now appears that everyone is DELAYING their purchases instead of ramping them up--everyone is playing chicken/"after you"/wait-and-see...the average purchase rate is actually DROPPING just before the mark is hit...

This could actually work *against* them now--who's gonna want to be the first one to buy a song right after a 100K mark was just hit? It could be the opposite of how it started out....???
 
Tried to buy - its too busy.
"Please try later"
well thanks, but no thanks, 5 minutes time is no good for me!
 
I tried getting a song and it gave me errors twice. If I end up getting charged for both of those I'm putting a brick through the window of the local Apple store.


EDIT:

because I felt guilty about all the music I haven't paid for, I decided to go ahead and buy a song even after the 100k passed, but the store is still f-ed up from before.
 
I smell a fix! Better resolve this before it becomes a PR nightmare. Plus I want my 3 dollah back! :mad:

I envoke my right to delcare "shenanigans"!
 
I had my shopping cart up but after clicking "buy now" it just stalled on "Accessing Music Store" and I stopped it after a minute, rats
 
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