( CNN ) -- On Wednesday , Apple announced a pretty mind-boggling stat : The 25 billionth song had been downloaded on iTunes . That 's billion . With a b . Since launching the iPod in 2001 , and iTunes in 2003 , Apple has been a leader in digital music , virtually defining the space for competitors like Amazon and Google . Here are five interesting facts about the milestone : . 1. Who did it ? Phillip Lupke of Germany was the lucky downloader . For happening to click at the right nanosecond , he 'll be getting a 10,000-Euro ( $ 13,528 ) iTunes gift card . And it was no easy task . According to Apple , users download an average of 15,000 songs every minute . 2 . What was the tune ? You 've probably never heard of it . Sorry . Hipster moment over . We had n't heard of it either . `` Monkey Drums ( Goksel Vancin Remix ) '' was the jam in question . It 's by Chase Buch , a British DJ and producer who 's well known in the house-music scene . It 's not so big on lyrics . Which is to say , it does n't have any . And it probably comes across better when you 're shaking it in a crowd of sweaty club kids than , say , sipping coffee and doing the New York Times crossword . 3 . Other iTunes milestones . 25 millionth song -- `` Let It Snow ! Let It Snow ! '' Frank Sinatra , 2003 . 100 millionth -- `` Somersault ( Danger Mouse remix ) , '' by English electronica band Zero 7 , 2004 . 500 millionth -- `` Mississippi Girl , '' Faith Hill , 2005 . 1 billionth -- `` Speed of Sound , '' Coldplay , 2006 . 10 billionth -- `` Guess Things Happen That Way , '' Johnny Cash , 2010 . Alex Ostrovsky , from West Bloomfield , Michigan , was the luckiest of downloaders . For the billionth download , he scored a 20-inch iMac , 10 fifth-generation iPods and a $ 10,000 gift card , not to mention a scholarship set up by Apple at the Julliard School of Music in his name . 4 . 25 billion is a lot . Obvious , right ? But how much is it ? Well , it 's roughly equal to three-and-a-half songs for every person on Earth . By way of comparison , the Guiness Book of World Records lists `` White Christmas '' as the top-selling song of all time at around 100 million copies . Multiply that by 250 and you get 25 billion . Michael Jackson 's `` Thriller '' is the No . 1 selling album of all time with more than 42 million certified sales . It would need to do that again almost 600 times to hit 25 billion . For a little more tech industry-specific comparison , Google 's Play Store hit 25 billion downloads in September for mobile apps running on its Android operating system . 5 . More iTunes by the numbers . More than 350 million -- number of iPods sold . 119 -- number of countries where iTunes is available . 26 million -- number of songs available on iTunes . More than 1 million -- number of songs sold on iTunes during its first week in April 2003 .
iMac announces that around 100 million songs have been downloaded from iTunes . `` Guess Things Happen That Way ) , '' by British house-music DJ Chase Buch , was the tune . Other milestone downloads : Sinatra , Coldplay , Faith Hill and Sinatra .