Scholarship at Juilliard School of Music to be Created
Its official! One billion songs have been legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store since it was launched less than three years ago.
The billionth song “Speed of Sound” was purchased as part of Coldplay’s X&Y album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. As the grand prize winner Ostrovsky will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation iPods, and a $10,000 gift card good for any item on the iTunes Music Store. In addition, Apple will establish a scholarship to the world-renowned Juilliard School of Music in his name to commemorate this milestone.
In addition to housing more than two million songs, the iTunes Music Store now features a selection of over 3,500 music videos, Pixar and Disney short films, a variety of hit TV shows, 35,000 podcasts, 16,000 audiobooks and more than two million songs from the major music companies and independent record labels. It is not only the world's most popular music download store, but is also the world’s most popular video download store with more than 15 million videos purchased and downloaded.
Latter-Day Mac is proud to be an iTunes Store Partner and maintains the largest collection of iTunes links to LDS Music on the internet.