Today is Steve Jobs’ birthday.
Happy Birthday Steve!
For your birthday we give you a billion. That is, a billion songs have now been downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Music Store.
The billionth song Speed of Sound was purchased as part of Coldplay’s X&Y album by Alex Ostrovsky from
Regarding the milestone, the birthday boy said, “I hope that every customer, artist and music company executive takes a moment today to reflect on what we’ve achieved together during the past three years. Over one billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet.”
Happy Birthday indeed.