∞ Apple unveils iTunes top selling music, TV, movies and apps for 2009

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Apple on Tuesday revealed iTunes’ list of top selling media from the iTunes Store in a new feature called iTunes Rewind 2009.

rewinditunesApple separated everything into the major categories that people use iTunes for including Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, Audiobooks and Podcasts. The company also included Editor’s Picks for all of the categories.

In the music category, the top selling songs are:

  1. “Boom Boom Pow,” Black Eyed Peas
  2. “Right Round,” Flo Rida
  3. “Poker Face,” Lady GaGa
  4. “I Gotta Feeling,” Black Eyed Peas
  5. “Gives You Hell,” The All-American Rejects
  6. “Just Dance,” Lady GaGa & Colby O’Donis
  7. “Party in the U.S.A.,” Miley Cyrus
  8. “The Climb,” Miley Cyrus
  9. “Dead and Gone (feat. Justin Timberlake),” T.I.
  10. “Use Somebody,” KIngs of Leon

The top selling albums are:

  1. Kings of Leon, “Only By the Night”
  2. Various Artists, “Twilight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”
  3. Lady GaGa, “The Fame”
  4. Taylor Swift, “Fearless”
  5. Dave Matthews Band, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King”
  6. Michael Jackson, “The Essential Michael Jackson”
  7. The Fray, “The Fray”
  8. Jay-Z, “The Blueprint 3″
  9. Eminem, “Relapse”
  10. Black Eyed Peas, “The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)”

Top selling movies include “Twilight,” “Pineapple Express,” “Quantum of Solace,” “The Proposal” and “Star Trek.” Top selling TV shows included “Mad Men,” “Lost,” “24,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “NCIS.”

The top selling games are “The Sims 3,” “The Oregon Trail,” “Need For Speed Undercover” and “Madden NFL 10.”


  • http://www.loopinsight.com Peter Cohen

    What a pile of suck. Apple may rock, but iTunes users’ taste leaves much to be desired. ;)

    • musicfiend

      Took the words right out of my mouth. The list appears to be a compilation of an 11 year olds music tastes.

  • David M.

    Only thing it proves is that a large percentage of iTunes customer base are from…. the zit-faced demographic. Teenagers and early twenty-somethings. Lady Gaga and Hannah Montana? Jeez.

    Granted, Apple needs to do a better job of appealing to and catering to mature adults who…. listen to classical music, jazz, or even classic rock.

  • http://www.shaunedwards.com shaun

    The Black eyed peas – E.N.D

    That was the only cd the kids would let us put on for our 6 hour holiday journey.
    I don’t want to hear that album EVER again.

    BTW – We had to listen to it again on the way back!!