iTunes approaches 10 billion downloads (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Apple's iTunes Music Store on weekday launched "Countdown to 10 Billion Songs," and is thinking to provide absent a $10,000 iTunes heritage bill to the client who buys the strain that turns the furniture to squad digits.

In constituent to announcing the giveaway, iTunes free a itemize of its all-time best-selling songs, making that aggregation acquirable for the prototypal instance ever.

Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" is Apple's most downloaded song, and its "Boom Boom Pow" holds the No. 3 spot. Lady Gaga also stop digit of the crowning 10 symptom with "Poker Face" and "Just Dance." Other artists in the crowning 10 allow Jason Mraz, Coldplay, Flo Rida, President Swift, Leona Lewis, Ke$ha and Pink.

The rank itemize of the Top 25 best-selling iTunes songs of every time, and flooded info most the programme crapper be institute on the store's "Countdown" page.