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During the evening/early morning of February 22/23, Alex Ostrovsky from Michigan purchased and downloaded the iTunes Music Store 1 billionth download (From the Music Service only). By doing so he won himself a new 20" iMac, 10 60gb iPods and a $10,000 Music Card for use with the iTMS.

Some interesting iTMS stats:

April 28, 2003 Apple Launches iTunes Music Store
May 6, 2003 One million songs sold on iTMS
May 14, 2003 Two million songs sold on iTMS
June 23, 2003 Five million songs sold on iTMS
September 8, 2003 Ten million songs sold on iTMS
October 16, 2003 Apple & Pepsi launch giveaway of 100 million free songs
October 20, 2003 One million copies of iTunes for Windows downloaded in less than four days
November 6, 2003 1.5 million songs sold on iTMS in one week
December 15, 2003 25 million songs sold on iTMS
March 15, 2004 50 million songs sold on iTMS
April 28, 2004 Over 70 million songs sold on iTMS
May 5, 2004 3.3 million songs sold on iTMS in one week
June 15, 2004 Apple launches iTMS in UK, France & Germany
June 23, 2004 iTMS in Europe sells 800,000 songs in first week
July 12, 2004 100 million songs sold on iTMS
August 10, 2004 iTMS catalog tops one million songs
October 14, 2004 150 million songs sold on iTMS
October 26, 2004 Apple launches iTMS in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain
November 30, 2004 Apple launches iTMS in Canada
December 16, 2004 200 million songs sold on iTMS
January 6, 2005 Apple launches iTMS in Ireland
January 24, 2005 250 million songs sold on iTMS
March 2, 2005 300 million songs sold on iTMS
April 13, 2005 350 million songs sold on iTMS
May 10, 2005 Apple launches iTMS in Denmark, Norway, Sweden & Switzerland
May 10, 2005 400 million songs sold on iTMS
July 17, 2005 500 million songs sold on iTMS
August 4, 2005 Apple launches iTMS in Japan
August 8, 2005 1 million songs sold on iTMS Japan in first four days
October 19, 2005 Apple launches iTMS in Australia
October 21, 2005 1 million videos sold on iTMS in less than 20 days
February 7, 2006 12 million videos sold on iTMS
February 23, 2006 1 billion songs sold on iTMS

As of October 2005, iTMS downloads accounted for 82% of legal music downloads in the US.
Digital Music sales accounted for 6% of overall music sales but sales grew from $220m to $790m in 2005.