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iTunes Hits 100 Million

bloodline555 said:
I knew that the final 100,000,000 was going to be today. But I underestimated what time it would happen. I wanted to try and win, but I was with my girlfriend at the time... YES a geek with a girlfriend! Bask in my glory!

(Let the flame war begin)
:D
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My girlfriend was over too. :p But unlike yours, she was timely, left about half an hour before the 100 mil song was reached. Had plenty of time to prepare for the downloading craze.
 
Looks like we might hit 100,100,000 by the time the morning news grabs ahold of this in about 5 hrs EST.

Current 100,048,337
 
Well, I spent my first $1 on iTunes since Dec. (thank you Pepsi and free singles of the week)

My song was "Let Go' by Frou Frou (song is on the 1st trailer for Garden state)

And this has put me in the mood to spend 2 more dollars, Franz Ferdinand and Modest Mouse here I come!

*wastes money
 
golfstud said:
I was downloading several tracks at 10:22PST about ten of them downloaded and then I got this error message. I had to use the CHECK for PURCHASED MUSIC feature to get the rest at 10:29. I was downloading Cra ck Rear View by Hootie and Blowfish, got half the songs at 10:22.

HMMMMM....Please, please, please. I bet there were A LOT of ties and this goes to a drawing...how precise does the count go...hundreths of a second??
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I got the same message once - not long after the promo began - and I'm sure others have as well.
I don't think it means anything more than "SYSTEM TEMPORARILY CHOKED" but I wish you all the best of luck nonetheless.
 
mariner77 said:
My girlfriend was over too. :p But unlike yours, she was timely, left about half an hour before the 100 mil song was reached. Had plenty of time to prepare for the downloading craze.
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She's a keeper then!

My wife has learned to not even talk to me during such events. (Although I didn't even try for this one.)
 
eric_n_dfw said:
I'd buy 10,000 copies of "We Are The World".
:eek:
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Not what I would buy, my post was in reference to what I would put on my celelbrity playlist.

Buying, ugh, that's a whole 'nother story. Don't even want to fathom trying to figure it out. Maybe just an easy way to digitize a ton of my vinyl.
 
ITR 81 said:
Looks like we might hit 100,100,000 by the time the morning news grabs ahold of this in about 5 hrs EST.

Current 100,048,337
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With it just being early morning in Europe right now, i think we may be close to 101 million (100.5 prob)

well see though, should be fun.
 
mainemike said:
Excellent!
That would seem to be a very good use for a Celebrity Playlist.
Heck, Apple should tap more iPod/iTunes users more often with this sort of thing. Celebrities are fine but why not do a random "regular folk" feature?
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I thought that that was what iMix was for. The problem, there's a lot more "regular" people and a lot less celebrities, and for some reason, regular people prefer to look in the direction of celebrities and not so often in the opposite dirction.
 
eric_n_dfw said:
She's a keeper then!

My wife has learned to not even talk to me during such events. (Although I didn't even try for this one.)
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My wife was on her iBook while I was on my Powerbook.
We didn't win though...I couldn't open my Shopping Cart in time to purchase. I was trying for 10 minutes!
Right after 10:22PST it opened!!!!
 
Pipian said:
Counter's back
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And its slowed back down to the pre surge average of about 3,000 per five minutes.

And on that note, the servers held up particularly well during the surge. I seriously just kept clicking download on about 50 or so songs as I'm sure many others did, and I didn't have any problems. Wonder why Apple doesn't advertise (not necesarily on TV or the radio, but spread the word) that the store is run on xServes.

Ugh tired.
 
WHo the winner is...

"Notification. Apple will notify winners by e-mail and/or by post at the address provided within approximately three (3) days following selection of each winner. Apple is not responsible for any delay or failure to receive notification for any reason, including inactive e-mail account(s), technical difficulties associated therewith, or winner’s failure to adequately monitor any e-mail account or physical address. The winner must then respond to Apple within five (5) days. Should the winner fail to respond to Apple or be disqualified, Apple reserves the right to select a new, replacement winne"
 
mainemike said:
Excellent!
That would seem to be a very good use for a Celebrity Playlist.
Heck, Apple should tap more iPod/iTunes users more often with this sort of thing. Celebrities are fine but why not do a random "regular folk" feature?
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but isn't that what iMix is? except it doesn't tell you who the playlist publisher is.
 
backspinner said:
yes, it still works at http://itunescount.tijdweb.nl
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nice graph:

 
James Craner said:
Apple have posted the main prize winner :

Kevin Britten of Hays Ellis, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermouse remix) by Zero7

http://www.apple.com/itunes/100million/
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Wow, that was quick!

They must have paid someone at Apple legal to work on a Sunday night just to be ready to verify everything was in order and get the announcement out quickly.

Congrats to Kevin Britten if he's reading this!

Turns out it was a 3-song EP, we don't know if he was downloading all three of the songs...But some of us (e.g. ME!) were downloading 99-track albums like this one in a vain attempt to win.
 
imnoah said:
EDIT: The counter is still up! Any guesses as to how log it takes Apple to pull the plug? 100,040,483 at 12:39 CT
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Well, since they probably just tied the counter into their normal system, I doubt it'll go down for the foreseeable future.

They have it write a .js file on the phobos server, probably takes like no processing power at all considering it's every 5 minutes.

There is no reason for them to take it down aside from it's a spoiler for when they say "500,000,000" tunes sold or whenever they have an arbitrary benchmark for sales
 
for those with bad eyes - the engraving reads:
100,000,000
Congratulations Kevin!
Thanks for purchasing the 100 Millionth song from the iTunes Music Store. Together we're changing the world of music.
Your friends at Apple.
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