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Note that Apple does not release individual sales figures for each item, so we have no idea how many of each were sold from iTunes, though some artists or their reps will of course provide digital download figures.
In terms of albums, Coldplay was the #1 iTunes album download this year with its Viva la Vida. Jack Johnson (yes, the No. 1 male artist of all time on iTunes, as announced by Steve Jobs at the "Let's Rock" iPod event) was No. 2 with Sleep Through the Static. Read more about iTunes >>
Singles, No. 1 was Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love, with Coldplay's Viva la Vida at No. 2.
For movies, the top one hasn't even been released yet: The Dark Knight, which releases Dec. 9th, and then WALL-E at No. 2 with Kung-Fu Panda and Iron Man trailing at Nos. 3 and 4.
TV Shows? Gossip Girl, Season 2 and Family Guy, Season 6.
For me, far more interesting was the list of App Store downloads. Apple split them into two major categories (paid and free, natch), and then into subcategories. The subcategories are:
That's quite some list, and I'm not going to go into them all, but Overall Free was Pandora Radio, while Overall Paid was Koi Pond. Now here's where it would be great if we could see download figures. It would be great to know just how well Koi Pond did vs. Pandora Radio, or just how well a paid game did against a free game.
I would also expect the top apps / music / whatever on Apple's list to see a spike after this listing. Check out the list. See if there's something you missed, app or otherwise.
Posted December 2nd, 2008 by Michael Santo
