Those in the music industry who campaigned against downloadable music and the horrible plague that it supposedly set upon artists (cough record producers cough) probably never expected that when the show went legit that Apple alone would have sold over 200 million songs since they put their iTunes service live (working out at about 4.7 million songs per week). The fate of MP3 has been sealed but not in the way that many in the music industry wanted. Now where’s a good place to get me an iPod? source: The Register