10 Billion song downloads!

iTunes breaks the 10 billion song download mark
Mashable.com 2/24/10

We are definitely in the era of big data. That's 10 billion records stored somewhere, in some database held by Apple. There's a lot of data to be filtered out from this: how old the downloaders are, what gender, what type of music they by, how is the time a song is bought influenced by various events in the media, if somebody has bought these N songs, what is the most likely song they will want to buy, which means that song should be advertised, pushed to that prospective buyer, and somebody should be charged for this advertisement...

from mashable.com: It’s official: Apple has broken the 10 billion song barrier. Just a few minutes ago, Apple’s song download counter hit the mark, something it has been counting down to for the last two weeks.

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