More good news from the world of Apple who yesterday confirmed that not only had they sold their 250 millionth download, but that the iTunes network now regularly sells over a million downloads a day - on one occasion they sold 1.25 million tracks in one
24 hour period.
In a statement commenting on the latest milestone the company told reporters: "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".
Obviously the number of tracks sold by iTunes should continue to grow as the number of iPod owners increases. 4.5 million iPods were sold in the last quarter, and the new cheaper iPod Shuffle is expected to supply another boost in the coming months.
The growth in iTunes customer base is important, because it means iTunes becomes less dependent on the small number of cash rich music fans who download hundreds of tracks as they soon as they buy a music player. Most people only buy just a few tracks each month, but there are now so many of those people that they are enough to supply iTunes with substantial regular business.