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Apple on Thursday said music gross sales on its iTunes shop have got topped 5 billion songs, and visitants are renting and buying more than 50,000 movies each day.

Apple, which have surpassed Wal-Mart arsenic the prima music retail merchant in the United States, set out a little on the up-to-the-minute numbers, offering no additional details. The company have a catalogue of more than than 8 million songs, 20,000 television shows, and 2,000 films, including 350 in high-definition format.

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In announcing on April 3 that it had , Apple said that it had sold more than than 4 billion songs through iTunes. Given that proclamation was 77 years ago, that would intend the company have sold nearly 13 million songs a twenty-four hours since then. Apple was not immediately available for comment.

Apple have gotten in problem before for . In late April, the company said it offered 10 million songs on its 5-year-old store, but later ratcheted the figure down to 6 million songs. In August 2007, the company said it had 5 million songs.

Apple's film aggregation includes statute titles from 20th Century Fox, Walt Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Charles Dudley Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Sony Pictures Television International, and Lionsgate. ITunes will lease and sell movies on the same twenty-four hours as their release. Customers using Macintosh or must have got iTunes 7.6.2 or higher to purchase or rent the movies.

Besides Wal-Mart, Apple's major challengers online include Amazon.com, which have about 5 million songs in its catalog. The retail merchant have tried to distinguish itself by merchandising music that's free of technology, which intends purchasers can play the music in any portable mass media player, such as as the Apple or Microsoft Zune. Amazon makes not supply the to play and form downloads on a PC. Instead, it purchases a customer's available software, such as as Apple iTunes.

While the flexibleness of DRM-free music sounds appealing, Amazon's music shop have had small impact on iTunes. Only 10% of Amazon's clients had previously bought digital melodies from Apple's online store, according to the NPD Group.