Hong Kong ( CNN ) -- In a move that is surely music to the ears of Apple fans in Asia , the U.S. technology giant has rolled out its online digital media store , iTunes , in a dozen territories , including Hong Kong , Singapore , Malaysia , Thailand , and the Philippines . While Apple 's wildly popular Mac computers , iPhones , and iPads are widely available in the Asia-Pacific region , its customers outside of Australia , Japan , and New Zealand have previously been unable to purchase music , movies , and other media from iTunes without a gift card or credit card attached to a billing address in a country with an iTunes store . Brunei , Cambodia , Laos , Macau , Taiwan , Sri Lanka , and Vietnam complete the list . Curiously , mainland China is the obvious absentee , despite being the California-based company 's second largest market and the site of five Apple retail stores . Apple would not comment on the company 's plans to launch iTunes in China . The tech giant 's sales in China surged to a record high of $ 7.9 billion for the first quarter of 2012 , putting it on course to double the $ 13.3 billion it made for the whole of 2011 . Apple has sold more than 16 billion songs via its iTunes Store since it was launched in 2003 , according to the company .
iTunes technology giant has rolled out its online digital media store , iTunes , across the Asia-Pacific region . iPads customers previously had to purchase media using gift cards from countries with an iTunes store . U.S. -- Apple 's second largest market -- will not yet have an iTunes store .