Happy Birthday… iTunes
It’s been five years, over five years now, that iTunes has been selling digital downloads. Apple’s music store, now the world’s largest after passing Wal Mart earlier in 2008, went online on April 28, 2003.
Of all the digital songs sold in all of the world, iTunes accounts for 70 percent.
Since its debut five years ago Monday, Apple’s iTunes Store has sold more than 4 billion songs and accounts for approximately 70 percent of digital music sold worldwide. In the next five years, it may well account for a staggering 28 percent of all music sold worldwide.
Apparently about 30 percent of all computers have iTunes installed. And while iTunes sees rampant growth in downloads and users, the iPod has somewhat plateaued.
Ok, enough shop talk. Let’s go to the scoreboard, after 5 years in biz what are the top sellers? Careful, it might make you sick…
iTunes Bestselling Songs
1. Hey Ya!, OutKast
2. Fallen, Sarah McLachlan
3. It’s My Life, No Doubt
4. Clocks, Coldplay
5. White Flag, Dido
ITunes Bestselling Albums
- On and On, Jack Johnson
- Sacred Love, Sting
- Life for Rent, Dido
- Room on Fire
- The Strokes
- Bare, Annie Lennox
- Speakerboxxx, Outkast
- Everything to Everyone, Barenaked Ladies
- Lord of the Rings, Howard Shore
- American IV, Johnny Cash
- Very Best of Sting, Sting & The Police
Apple to cut iPhone prices
For those of us who love our iPhones, here’s some news:
A new iPhone is coming, no surprise, but with rebates its price is reduced to $200 (8gb) or $300 (16gb).
When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.
Grand Theft Auto IV
Much buzz this week over perhaps the biggest video game release of the year. Maybe of all time?
Poll: Is Grand Theft Auto best game title ever?
Grand Theft Auto IV is out and it’s doing big biz at the stores. Check out this report from the Wall Street Journal.
Not sure what the fuss is over? Here’s the latest and final trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV.
More Grand Theft Auto IV discussion can be found here.
Oak Tree sold
An update from this morning’s headlines:
The Oklahoman’s John Rohde is reporting local businessman Ed Evans on Tuesday morning announced the purchase of Oak Tree Golf Club from previous owner Don Mathis. Evans said he bought the prestigious private course in north Edmond with the intent of luring another professional major event, or perhaps landing an annual stop on the PGA Tour.
The NBA announced today that New Orleans Hornets head coach Byron Scott was selected as the recipient of the Red Auerbach Trophy as the 2007-08 NBA Coach of the Year.
Read more about the Hornets’ playoff race on the NBA blog.
Northbound I-35 is being diverted onto NE 36 after fatality accident on highway. The accident is near I-35 and NE 50. You can find a live traffic report on NewsOK.com
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Miley Cyrus pics too racy?
Miley Cyrus has the best of both worlds. G-rated school girl for Disney. Rock star in real life.
Now she has people talking about apparently racy pics in Vanity Fair. She’s only 15.
Cyrus is apologizing for the uproar. Here is video from behind the scenes at the photo shoot.
And here is more from a Miley Cyrus unofficial fan blog.
Tornadoes hit Virginia
3 tornadoes ripped through Virginia yesterday. More than 200 people hurt.
The National Weather Service confirmed that tornadoes struck Suffolk,
Brunswick County, about sixty miles west, and Colonial Heights, about 60
miles northwest.
The government began depositing tax rebate checks in thousands of bank
accounts Monday as the stimulus program aimed at giving the ailing economy a
jump-start got under way early.
Police in Catoosa say the body of a man found wrapped in cellophane inside a
pickup truck has been identified as that of a missing Rogers County man.
Investigators say the medical examiner’s office identified the body as
Carter Leach of Chelsea. Leach had been missing since March 17th. Cause of
death unknown.
A single-engine plane nosedived into the Will Rogers Turnpike near the Miami
exit yesterday afternoon. Authorities would not identify the pilot, but
family members identified him as Clair Tromsness, 74, of rural Miami.
Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy
McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the
pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, this according to the NY Daily News.
Clemens is denying an inappropriate relationship. McCready however confirmed
the affair.
An approaching storm system will bring strong winds, increasing the wildfire
potential in western Oklahoma today to Thursday, Mostly sunny. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph.
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