Updated: Well, it took almost four month, but at $2.50 a pop, that’s $2.5 million in revenues (not technically true…see update below): Sprint, which launched its full track download music service on October 24th last year, says one million songs have been downloaded by customers since then. The catalog has about 320,000 songs.
The service took a beating from critics last year for being so expensive: $2.50 a song. Would be interesting to see how long it takes for the next million and so on…I bet not the same rate. Compare that to iTunes and it hit a million mark in a week, back in 2003.
Kansas City Biz Journal: Competitor Verizon Wireless launched a similar service Jan. 16…The company hasn’t disclosed how many songs customers have downloaded using the service and has no plans to disclose those figures.
Updated: Jon Gales of Mobiletracker writes in comments on sister site MocoNews.net: “My first thought after reading their PR (which we also ran with) was how many of the songs were paid downloads. I checked on our original story about the launch and they ran a promo where you would get 5 free songs, just to test it out. I e-mailed Sprint and they said they don’t break down numbers into paid/promo downloadsâ
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