San Francisco - Apple announced on Tuesday that its iTunes Store has now sold more than 2 billion songs, with over a billion of them sold in the last year alone.

The company's online store has also now sold 50 million television episodes, and over 1.3 million feature-length films. Apple said it signed a deal with Viacom's Paramount Pictures, to add more than 100 movies to iTunes, which now offers a total of 250 films, in addition to 350 television shows, 100,000 podcasts and four million songs.

"iTunes has crossed another major milestone by selling over two billion songs -- with over a billion of them sold in the last year alone -- making it by far the world's most popular music store," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "And by selling 50 million TV shows and over 1.3 million movies to date, iTunes is already the largest online video store in the world as well."

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