I've restrained myself lately from posting iTunes numbers in part because it's kind of dull and in part because I was hoping that the numbers would settle out. Looks like they may have. Apple made a big deal about the 50 millionth download, but more interesting to me is that things seem to have settled down to a pretty steady run rate of about 2.5 million songs per week (130 million songs per year).

That's not enormous - I suspect content will remain a loss-leader for iPod sales for some time. But it shows that the initial large demand was not entirely a fluke nor entirely just pent-up frustration at not being able to legally obtain digital music content.

Lycos Finance (beware congratulatory press-release-ese language)