iTunes Music store downloads hit 250 million

Apple’s iTunes store has recorded the download of over 250 million songs (or a quarter billion songs as Apple’s press release puts it). The iTunes store is now averaging over a million downloads a day! Should this pace continue (and there is no reason that it shouldn’t as iPods and iPod Shuffles continue to fly out of the stores), iTunes should see sales of almost half a billion songs this year!

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