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iTunes Music Store downloads graphed

Mad Dog in the the Fog has created this very cool graph that plots the number of downloads from the iTMS versus the number of weeks that it has been around.
That's some impressive growth, folks.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James said 12:21PM on 2-27-2006
Cha-ching! As a stock holder you gotta love that..great post!
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john said 12:49PM on 2-27-2006
Err.
Implicit in that chart is that sales are _cumulative_, so that growth is slightly misleading (read: of course it's just going to keep going up and up).
What would be more useful to see is a chart of the number of songs sold per week. Wonder how much that's changed over time?
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Milo said 2:22PM on 2-27-2006
This chart is rising somewhat exponentially! Eventually, everyone on the planet could conceiveably have downloaded every song available now and in the future of the iTunes music/video/etc/ store, and there would be absolutely NOTHING TO DO!!!
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Pablo said 7:35PM on 2-27-2006
john, there's nothing misleading about this graph. You can easily follow how many songs have been sold at any given time by using simple arithmetics. Let me help you: at first, it took 30 weeks to reach 25 million downloads, during the next 30 weeks the number went up to 100 million, that is 75 million new downloads (3-fold increase compared to the previous 30 weeks). In the next 30 weeks they sold 150 million songs (2-fold increase), and then 250 million (1.7-fold), and then more than 500 million (+2-fold). In conclusion: sales have been roughly doubling every 30 weeks. Ever heard of exponential growth?
BTW, I predict that we're gonna see a prettier version of this chart sometime tomorrow...
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john said 8:54PM on 2-27-2006
Dur.
That's what I get for posting before my first cup of coffee.
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