Music lovers around the world have purchased nearly one billion – that’s right, billion with a “B”! – songs from the iTunes Music Store. As Apple counts down to this mind-boggling milestone, the question is, who will download that one-billionth song? It could be you! There’s no entry form. Just do what you’ve been doing and you just might download number 1,000,000,000! The grand prize winner will receive a 20-inch iMac, ten 60GB iPods (for all your friends and family), and an iTunes Music Card that lets you download another $10,000 worth of music. Apple will also create a fully funded scholarship to a prestigious music school in your name!
Meanwhile, as the countdown to one billion proceeds, every 100,000th song (starting at 950,100,000) downloaded will earn the lucky music lover a sleek, black 4GB iPod nano and a $100 iTunes Music Card. Now, we’d love to tell you more, but we’ll be busy for the next week or so downloading … err, we mean, visiting a sick aunt in Des Moines, Iowa. She’s a sweetheart. Hope she has a broadband connection.
