Apple Sells 250 Million iTunes

A little over a month since announcing it had surpassed the 200 million download mark, Apple announced that iTunes Music Store sales were accelerating and had reached 250 million downloads on Monday. 1.25 million songs are being sold every day, and downloads for the year could surpass a half billion songs, Apple says.

iTunes explosive growth in January is no doubt due in part to the over 4.5 million iPods that were sold during the fourth quarter of last year. "When we launched the iTunes Music Store we were hoping to sell a million songs in the first six months - now we're selling over a million songs every day, and we've sold over a quarter billion songs in total," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.