iTunes Music Store Adds Nine EU Countries (UPDATED)

October 25th, 2004 at 3:00 PM - Reports by Brad Gibson

Nine European Union countries now have access to buy and download music from Appleis iTunes Music Store, Apple announced Tuesday. iTunes users in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain can now buy digital cuts for €0.99 per song.

The nine EU countries join iTMS users in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany.

“We’re excited to bring the iTunes Music Store to even more music fans across Europe, and with this expansion we now reach customers in almost 70 percent of the global music market,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s Vice President of Applications.

The company also said it will launch the iTMS in Canada in November.

Apple announced August 10 that the iTMS now had over one million songs available for download in the US and music from all five major record labels and over 600 leading independent labels from around the world. The company has refused to say exactly how many downloads are available in the 12 other markets.

When Apple launched the ITMS in Europe back in June, 800,000 songs were purchased in the first week, the company said, with more than 450,000 sold in the UK alone.