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Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 150 million songs from the iTunes Music Store. The 150 millionth song was “Ex-Factor” by Lauryn Hill and was purchased by Beth Santisteven from Ignacio, Colorado. Apple says that iTunes users are now downloading more than 4 million songs per week, a rate of over 200 million songs per year. Apple also announced the availability of iTunes gift cards at all Best Buy stores. Read More

Greg Joswiak, head of Apple’s hardware product marketing, said yesterday that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 85 million songs from the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) since it launched. On April 28 (the first anniversary of its iTMS), Apple announced more than 70 million songs had been purchased, and that the company held more than 70 percent market share of legal downloads for singles and albums.