London: Did you win the $10,000 (Dh36,700) voucher for downloading the 10 billionth iTunes song?
Someone did. And more stuff to kick off your day.. Apple's iTunes Store hit the 10 billion download mark at about 10pm GMT on Wednesday night: details of the winner weren't immediately available.
A list of the most downloaded songs was, though, and very interesting it was: Black Eye Peas at the top with I Gotta Feeling, followed by Lady GaGa (with Poker Face).
What's absolutely clear is that the "all-time best sellers" are all released in the past couple of years — which you'd expect: there are more iPods and copies of iTunes around, so of course they will have driven more sales.
A more interesting question is whether sales are slowing down at all. From the Wikipedia graph, it looks like they're not — it's continuing on a steady climb. The key question is, will it ever turn downwards?
Bonus trivia point for some future Apple-themed game of Trivial Pursuit: it happened on Steve Jobs' birthday. He just turned 55, since you ask.
