CUPERTINO, California—March 15, 2004—Apple® today announced that musicfans have purchased and downloaded over 50 million songs from Apple’siTunes® Music Store, not including songs redeemed from thecurrently-running Pepsi iTunes promotion. The 50 millionth song,purchased last Thursday afternoon, was “The Path of Thorns” by SarahMcLachlan. iTunes users are now downloading 2.5 million songs per week,which is an annual run rate of 130 million songs per year.

“Crossing 50 million songs is a major milestone for iTunes and theemerging digital music era,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over50 million songs already downloaded and an additional 2.5 million songsbeing downloaded every week, it’s increasingly difficult to imagineothers ever catching up with iTunes.”

Apple is the only company to offer a complete solution for buying,managing and listening to digital music anywhere with the uniquecombination of the iTunes digital music jukebox software, thepioneering iTunes Music Store and the market-leading iPod™ and iPodmini digital music players. All work seamlessly together to make thenew digital music era accessible to everyone.

The iTunes Music Store offers Windows and Mac® users the industry’slargest online music catalog of over 500,000 songs, industry-leadingpersonal use rights and uniform 99 cents-per-song pricing. Withexclusive tracks from more than 150 artists, the iTunes Music Storeoffers music from all five major music companies and over 300independent music labels. Plus more than 5,000 audiobooks, online giftcertificates, Apple’s patent-pending “Allowance” feature which letsparents automatically deposit funds into their kids’ iTunes Music Storeaccount every month, Celebrity Playlists, iTunes Essentials andBillboard Charts.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with theApple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with theMacintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computingexperience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumersaround the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internetofferings.

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