Filed under: iTS
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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