It’s additionally complicated since some users’ iOS or Mac machines were set up to automatically downloaded the album.īut it’s reasonable to assume that a bigger number of people have sampled some of the album by streaming it from iTunes or iTunes Radio, where Apple is giving the new songs a big push. Since the scale of the giveaway is unprecedented - Apple says more than 500 million people will have access to the album - it’s hard to put those download numbers in a meaningful perspective. The album is available exclusively on iTunes until the middle of October. ITunes users have downloaded more than 2 million copies of “Songs of Innocence” since Tuesday, according to people familiar with the album’s performance. Or, at a minimum, your iPhones and MacBooks did. But lots of you were willing to download it. Some of you do not want the U2 album Apple is giving away.
