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 are the downloaders?
- what gender are they?
- What type of music do they buy?
- How is the time at which a song is bought influenced by various events in the media?
- I somebody has bought N particular songs, what is the most likely song they will want to buy next?
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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