Apple today announced that iTunes (http://www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50
million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, with an incredible 20 million songs sold on Christmas Day 2007 alone, and offers the world’s largest music catalog of over six million songs from all
of the majors and thousands of independent labels.

“We’d like to thank the over 50 million music lovers who have helped
the iTunes Store reach this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s
vice president of iTunes. “We continue to add great new features like
iTunes Movie Rentals to give our customers even more reason to love
iTunes.”

Last month, Apple launched iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from
all of the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney
Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New
Line Cinema. Users can rent movies and watch them on their PCs or Macs, all
current generation iPods**, iPhone(TM) and on a widescreen TV with Apple
TV(R). iTunes Movie Rentals will offer over 1,000 titles by the end of this
month, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1
Dolby Digital surround sound which users can rent directly from their
widescreen TV using Apple TV.

iTunes 7.6 is available as a free download at http://www.itunes.com.
iTunes Movie Rentals are available in the US only and are $2.99 (US) for
library titles and $3.99 (US) for new releases, and high definition
versions are priced just one dollar more with library titles at $3.99 (US)
and new releases at $4.99 (US). Movie rentals from the iTunes Store for
Mac(R) or Windows require iTunes 7.6. iTunes Movie Rentals require a valid
credit card with a billing address in the country of purchase.

*Based on data from market research firm the NPD Group’s MusicWatch
survey that captures consumer reported past week unit purchases and counts
one CD representing 12 tracks, excluding wireless transactions. The iTunes
Music Store became the second-largest music retailer in the US after
Wal-Mart, based on the amount of music sold during 2007.

**Movie rentals work on iPod(R) classic, iPod nano with video and iPod
touch.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the
Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the
Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with
its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and
professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media
revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online
store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary
iPhone.

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