iTunes Music Store downloads fall by half..
According to a pretty large article in todays New York Post business section, downloads at Apple's iTunes Music Store have fallen to about 500,000 per week since the first week the Music Store opened.
It goes on to say that even though 500,000 downloads a week sounds like a lot, Apple was hoping for between 1-2 million downloads a week.
It goes on to say that even though 500,000 downloads a week sounds like a lot, Apple was hoping for between 1-2 million downloads a week.
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Originally posted by coolmac
It goes on to say that even though 500,000 downloads a week sounds like a lot, Apple was hoping for between 1-2 million downloads a week.
Hmm, record companies said they expected 1 million downloads a month.
When they open the store to Mac users around the globe, and get a bigger database, i.e. a couple of million songs or so, then it'll really take off.
Originally posted by tonton
If Apple had full international support and more indie and out-of-print material, they'd easily make a million a month.
Um, they sell TWO million a month now.
from everything i've read and heard the drop off was expected to be greater than it was.
as to the article, it reads like the author has a chip on his sholder. and as to the music "exectutive" who says "apple doesn't even put out any press releases anymore", well nobody pays attention to companies that spit out press releases like chewing gum.
i've only met few music "executives" who weren't idiots.
"it's the post for crissakes!"
Wow what a lot of flying numbers. A million here, five hundred thousand there. On the bright side, while we are talking songs, we are also talking dollars. A million dollars here, five hundred thousand dollars there. Equally bright, my, look at all the free publicity!!
If the reporter never used iTMS but wrote about it extensively, is that the same sort of ethical breach Jayson Blair committed over at the Times?? Hm....
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