Apple announces winner of 1 Billion Downloads contest

The song counter on Apple's homepage reached the 1 billion mark at approximately 12:38am EST on Thursday morning. The winning tune was Speed of Sound by Coldplay (those guys are everywhere these days) as purchased by Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan.

Alex: Enjoy your spiffy new iMac, your collection of TEN iPods and iTunes gift card worth a total of 10 grand.

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Source: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/feb/23itms.html

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The song counter on Apple's homepage reached the 1 billion mark at approximately 12:38am EST on Thursday morning. The winning tune was...

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brian

That's what the 9 extra iPods are for--you sell them to cover the taxes.

February 24 2006 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wordman

"Guards! Put this man in cell #1, and give him a drink."

February 24 2006 at 12:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bill

i hate gays and coldplay

February 24 2006 at 8:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Xenedar

I'm gay and I don't like Coldplay....

February 24 2006 at 2:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gary

I like gays but I hate Coldplay...

February 24 2006 at 2:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

REY2K7

I like Coldplay and I'm not gay...

February 24 2006 at 12:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

renesimone

If you want to check if you won a nano...

http://www.apple.com/itunes/1billion/winners.html

February 23 2006 at 7:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ross

Coldplay are everywhere, and everything sounds like them - http://www.everythingsoundslikecoldplaynow.com/

February 23 2006 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

The Jeremy

What's that website profiled on *Unscrewed with Martin Sargent* seemingly eons ago on the subject...? Oh yeah, that would be youhavebadtasteinmusic.com.

Funny how this reminds me of the subject material of that website.

Coldplay. Pffffffffffffffffffff. Then again, their lead "singer" is a Mac diehard...enough to name his daughter "Apple".

February 23 2006 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

timothy broyles

I don't know, not much more embarrasing than buying Coldplay. I mean, c'mon.

February 23 2006 at 5:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply