iTunes sells 50 million tracks

European music fans have downloaded more than 50 million songs from Apple's iTunes music stores since their launch a year ago.

The UK iTunes music store offers over one million songs, including content from major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels.

iTunes stores are also available in sixteen other European countries, including France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

“We’re thrilled to have sold and delivered over 50 million songs in our first year,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of applications. "We’d like to thank European music fans for making iTunes such a success."

iTunes has recently added the ability for customers to download videos with select albums and singles, as well as the ability to pre-order albums.