PRESS RELEASE June 23, 2005

LONDON—June 23, 2005—Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 50 million songs from its European iTunes® Music Stores in its first year. iTunes Music Stores were launched in the UK, France and Germany in June 2004, and now operate in 17 European countries including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The European iTunes Music Stores have catalogs of over one million songs each, and feature content from all major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels.

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