Apple's Amazing 2001

Hello,

I'm about 5 months behind in my magazine reading. I've finally got to the November 23rd, 2009 Fortune magazine. The cover story is about Steve Jobs and Fortune calling him the CEO of the Decade. I think that's absolutely right, I don't think anyone even came close to his 10 year run. Fortune lists some others that had good decades. Those people include Google's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, superstar investor Warren Buffet, Bill Gates (Microsoft- boo!) and Oprah Winfrey.

But no one had the decade that Steve Jobs did. I just want to highlight one year in this run: 2001. This is what happened for Apple that year. On January 9th, Apple introduced the iTunes application. On March 24th, Apple released the new Mac OS X Operating System. Then on May 19th Apple opened its first two retail stores. For trivia buffs those stores were in Tyson's Corner, Va. and Glendale, Ca. They have since introduced many other stores, including a store in my home city Salt Lake. Then on November 10th Apple began selling its first iPod. It's a 5GB iPod that Apple claims it can hold 1000 songs. As of November, 2009 over 220 million iPods have been sold.

To compare and contrast: "Today you can buy an 160 GB iPod that holds 40,000 songs for $249." (Thanks to Fortune magazine for the above information.

Also there have been 10 billion (with a b) songs sold on iTunes. Thanks to Billboard, here's the Top 25 from a couple of months ago. This was right after the 10 billionth song was sold. Next to it I put themusicaddict's grade.

1. Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling" (B)
2. Lady Gaga, "Poker Face" (A)
3. Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow" (C)
4. Jason Mraz, "I'm Yours" (D)
5. Coldplay, "Viva La Vida" (D)
6. Lady Gaga, "Just Dance" (B)
7. Flo Rida, "Low" (D)
8. Taylor Swift, "Love Story" (B+)
9. Leona Lewis, "Bleeding Love" (A)
10. Ke$ha, "Tick Tock" (B-)
11. Rihanna, "Disturbia" (B)
12. P!nk, "So What" (B)
13. Katy Perry "I Kissed a Girl" (A)
14. Beyonce, "Single Ladies" (C)
15. Katy Perry, "Hot N Cold" (C)
16. Kanye West, "Stronger" (C-)
17. T.I. feat. Rihanna, "Live Your Life" (C)
18. Plain White T's, "Hey There Delilah" (B-)
19. Flo Rida, "Right Round" (F)
20. Miley Cyrus, "Party in the U.S.A." (C-)
21. Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'" (A) This is by far the oldest song on the list.
22. Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance" (A++++)
23. Kings of Leon, "Use Somebody" (C-)
24. Owl City, "Fireflies" (B-)
25. The Fray, "How to Save a Life" (C)

To all of those going to the Daughtry/ Lifehouse concert tonight in Salt Lake, enjoy!

themusicaddict