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The Download Heard 'Round the World: iTunes Numbers Show 81 Million 'Experienced' U2 Album | Billboard
Pretty impressive stuff. I am genuinely surprised at how high the downloaded number is, as those are all people choosing to download the album... quite different from people having it accidentally come on shuffle via iCloud.
Props to the band... it worked.
Eddy Cue, Apple's senior VP of internet software and services, tells Billboard that U2's Songs of Innocence has racked up a staggering 26 million complete downloads since its Sept. 9 release as a free download exclusively to Apple's 500 million global iTunes customers. In total, Cue adds, over 81 million Apple customers experienced songs from Innocence, a global figure that includes plays and streams through iTunes, iTunes Radio and Beats Music. "To help put this into perspective," he says, "prior to this, 14 million customers had purchased music from U2 since the opening of the iTunes Store in 2003."
Pretty impressive stuff. I am genuinely surprised at how high the downloaded number is, as those are all people choosing to download the album... quite different from people having it accidentally come on shuffle via iCloud.
Props to the band... it worked.