Read on to hear how and maybe find out your odds….
All you have to do is buy the 10 billionth song on iTunes. According to the official contest rules, participants may make up to 25 entries per day either by purchasing/downloading songs from the iTunes Store or by filling out an entry form on Apple’s web site. Apple used a similar tactic with its One Billionth Song prize in 2006 and its One Billionth App prize in 2009. Read what Apple has to say:
“The prize will be awarded for the entry (either through a song download or through the non-purchase online entry) sent immediately following the download of the 9,999,999,999th song. The potential winner will be determined by the order of the entries received. In the event that more than one entrant would be a winner based on the simultaneous timing of entries, one entrant will be randomly selected from those entrants as the winner. Each entrant’s chances of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.”
So do you think you will win? Well, in all likelihood you won’t. You might as well go to a near newsstand with the money you would use to buy a new song and buy yourself a lottery ticket because you have a better chance there. Realistically it is something like 1 in 200 billion chance or something crazy like that.
Right now, the countdown is at around 9.9 billion. So get prepared to be angry at some 13-year-old girl in the midwest who bought taylor swift’s new song as the 10 billionth song or some elderly man who buys a Barry Manilow song as the 10 billionth song.
But hey, who knows? Maybe you can buy that Ke$ha or Lady Gaga or Black Eyed Peas or some other song that has been stuck in your head. Why not? If you time it JUST RIGHT you could just win $10,000 on iTunes.
Not that you would be able to use all of it in a reasonable way.
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