June 19, 2008

By By Lars Brandle, London

Apple's iTunes Music Store has burst through the five billion download sales milestone, the computer giant said today.

The iTunes online store boasts a licensed catalog of more than eight million songs, over 20,000 TV episodes and in-excess of 2,000 film titles.

The company also reported that its customers are currently renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies each day, from a library of films licensed from such studos as 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and New Line Cinema.

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