September 8, 2003: Ten Millionth Song Sold via iTunes

When iTunes was first offered to the public it was nothing more than a program to manage an .mp3 collection. Then the iPod was added to the mix. Finally, iTunes morphed from just another iApp to an income generating conduit.

The move was originally greeted with skepticism. The CEO of BuyMusic.com said iTunes was great but was on the wrong platform. (BuyMusic quickly folded.)

The doubts about the success of iTunes were diminished with each milestone passed, but they were well and truly buried when Apple announced that they had sold over ten million songs via iTunes and that the tracks were moving at a clip of over 500,000 per week this day in 2003.