Apple sells 1,000,000,000 songs

As of last night, Apple has now sold a rather incredible one billion songs in the iTunes Music Store. The person who bought the billionth song won some nice prizes:

• an iMac
• 10 60Gb iPods
• $10,000 credit at the iTunes Music Store

Apple continues to maintain a huge market share in both downloaded songs and music players. Lots of folks seem convinced that Apple will slip (for typical examples, see here and here), but it hasn't happened yet.