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iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

From the promo homepage:
All iTunes Music Store customers in the US, UK, France and Germany are eligible. No purchase necessary.
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What the heck??
I dont need to buy!?!?!
 
Stike

LMAO! Stike, I like your .gif, was it just for this occasion or has it always been there?
 
At 95mill / 400 days = 237500 songs per day, the race will be on in two days time :D Good luck to all those who are able to participate ... unfortunately I'm in Norway :(

Edit: Oh ... Apple claims that the 95000000th song will be sold tomorrow. I guess the sale rate is higher now than in the beginning :eek:
 
mainstreetmark said:
I doubt if i could find 10,000 songs on iTMS. I'd be giving people 10 song gift certs for their birthdays and christmas for years.
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I feel the same way... It'd be great to shop till I drop, but realistically, that's just too much music to buy. (I wonder if they give you a time limit that the winner has to spend it by? I bet!)
 
choogheem said:
Did anyone else notice that there are 2 free songs to download? Click on the free song, click on the album, go to favorite iMixes and click the free songs iMix. At the bottom of the list is 2 free songs.
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Good tip. :)
 
Stike said:
From the promo homepage:

What the heck??
I dont need to buy!?!?!
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Correct.

It is illegal to have a promotion (in the US) where you require somebody to purchase something to be eligible. That's why you always hear "No Purchase Necessary". You'll probably have to mail in your name and address, then you'll be put in the queue or something of that nature.
 
I think they will hit 100M before this Tuesday with this speed.I wonder if WMA and RealOne services ever come out with such ideas.
 
Oh my God!

What do I do? what do I do? to buy songs all the time until I reach the person 100 million? :confused:
 
Nikko1965 said:
Is this definitely an international promotion or is there some small print about people having to be called "Tex" and drive petrol-guzzling cars with a gun-rack in the back?

Not that there's a chance of doing any online shopping in Holland til song 2x10E50 anyway.
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Come on, I'm the only one of my beer-drinking, deer-poaching, truck drivin' friends who knows how to use a computer!!! GET REAL!

DROOOL, I want a 17" powerbook. Hmmm, 10,000 songs would fill at least half of the hard drive, hope whoever wins doesn't want it for anything else but iTunes (but then what else do you need a computer for anyway?)

Time to start purchasing each and every song from my wish list and my bookmarks from Daily Tunes...
 
This could backfire seriously. There will be a lot of sales around the 100,000 marks. Then a slump to the next 100,000. A lot of sales. slump. A lot of sales. slump. etc... :D
 
invaLPsion said:
This could backfire seriously. There will be a lot of sales around the 100,000 marks. Then a slump to the next 100,000. A lot of sales. slump. A lot of sales. slump. etc... :D
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Most people aren't going to follow it that closely, and they won't know or care about another iPod giveaway. The only way I would do it is if I had a lot of songs queued up in my Shopping Cart... If anything, there will be a rush at the 100 million mark.
 
sales have slowed down

they were at 85 Million on June 8. This means 24 days for 10 million songs which is a about 3 million a week. they were at 3.3 million a week a while ago and this was before the European store opened.
 
I wonder if it counts your purchase when you click buy, or when each individual song finished downloading?
 
rweidmann said:
they were at 85 Million on June 8. This means 24 days for 10 million songs which is a about 3 million a week. they were at 3.3 million a week a while ago and this was before the European store opened.
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I'm sure it's seasonal. More people are outside and taking vacations during the summer months than they will be in January for example. In just the past couple of hours, they've sold over 43,000 so they're doing pretty good I'd say.
 
mainstreetmark said:
I doubt if i could find 10,000 songs on iTMS. I'd be giving people 10 song gift certs for their birthdays and christmas for years.
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You certainly could make lots of new friends in Canada..Ireland...Sweden..Italy..Spain.... ;)
 
Shopping Spree (Shotgun Approach)

degrush said:
I wonder if anyone will take a chance and just buy songs like crazy, say 1000 of them, in hopes of getting the $14,000 prize. If only you could add a bunch of songs to a shopping cart then buy them all at once.
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As others have mentioned, you can use a shopping cart in iTMS.

Hmmm....you could wait for the next "wave crest" - when the next 100,000 counter mark approaches - and then purchase one of those 100+ song playlists (ie., "Independence 100") :eek:
 
rweidmann said:
they were at 85 Million on June 8. This means 24 days for 10 million songs which is a about 3 million a week. they were at 3.3 million a week a while ago and this was before the European store opened.
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I don't know if Apple ever announced that they were consistently selling 3.3 million a week. I'm pretty sure that figure was announced as a record for a weeks worth of sales, and occured just after a large announcement (maybe the Superbowl, or the iTunes 1 year anniversary.....can't remember). But I don't think this was a sustainable rate at that point. To be at a rate of 3million per week consistently is awesome!
 
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