VISITS to music downloading websites saw a 50 per cent rise on Christmas Day as hundreds of thousands of people began loading songs on to the iPods they received as presents.
According to figures from Hitwise, the online intelligence company, visits to music download sites, such as Apple’s iTunes Music Store, rose by 50 per cent between December 24 and 25.
Hitwise also found that visits to download sites were 15 per cent higher than last Christmas.
Compare this bit of news with Steve’s piece about the RIAA whining! Guess who has it figured out?
Yeah, my video podcast got clobbered Christmas weekend and it just keeps getting worse! Apple must have sold a LOAD of new iPods because my podcast went to #70 on the Top 100 list, my server is meltind down and I went through 200 gigs of Network Solutions hosting in roughly 29 hours. Yikes!
i love you guys. please let me get music on my ipod