Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 200 million songs from its European iTunes Music Stores in just over two years, and the iTunes music catalog now includes more than three million songs from major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels.
In worldwide market, iTunes Music Store sold 1 billionth song(*) on 23rd February 2006.
For more detail, please see European iTunes Music Store Tops 200 Million Songs Sold (Apple Press Release)
(*) 1 billion as in a thousand million, i.e. 1,000,000,000.
